Custom line pattern alignment

[JackobPlaster]

Hi Folks,

I had some success with custom patterns before and I became overly complacent. Visio must've felt it because it's giving me a hard time. Any ideas?
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Thanks!

[Surrogate]

Visio must've felt it because it's giving me a hard time. Any ideas?

Hi, Jackob ! What behavior you want get in you custom pattern ?

[JackobPlaster]

Visio must've felt it because it's giving me a hard time. Any ideas?

Hi, Jackob ! What behavior you want get in you custom pattern ?

Hi, I just want a regular old line. I just made that blob to illustrate the problem but if I do a Connector or anything my custom line is still off.

The only difference between these two is the Dash type.

[Surrogate]

Hi, I just want a regular old line. I just made that blob to illustrate the problem but if I do a Connector or anything my custom line is still off.

Jackob, can you attach your document there ?

[JackobPlaster]

Jackob, can you attach your document there ?

Attached. I was playing around a lot with the bitmap but couldn't make it better. I wonder if this is some issue with Visio on my particular computer due to display scaling or something similar.
Thanks for looking into this!

[wapperdude]

The problem is you're using a picture to create a line style.  That won't work.Visio won't barf, but, as you can see, the results are quite unpredictable.

[Yacine]

Wapperdude is right.
I took your picture of the wire, inserted it in Inkscape, vectorized in and pasted it back into Visio.
--- provided --- the resulting vectors are not too complexe, you can use them as line pattern and get satisfying results.