Combining two stencils

wapperdude · January 10, 2022, 05:57:02 PM

This seems like totally wrong path for the OP. He has a stencil open, and then wants to bring up a 2nd, related stencil. Stencils are not same as collections.

Surrogate · January 10, 2022, 06:31:44 PM

Hi, Mr. Dude!

May be you are right! I'm sorry, I'm Russian...

Quote from: robmcvick on January 09, 2022, 04:45:20 PMI have attached a screenshot of the two stencils

IMHO at screenshot not stencils, there are two master-shapes!!!

wapperdude · January 10, 2022, 09:23:50 PM

...haven't been at my computer. Back now. Ah. looking at his screen shot, it's hard to tell exactly, as the resolution isn't great, but it looks like this is about two views of same shape, and doesn't involve stencils. So this is a terminology error. Or is it just me?

If that's the case, then what OP wants is certainly doable. Assuming these are just images and not actual Visio shapes, then, they could be grouped, properly aligned. They, double click could toggle the visibilities, hiding one and revealing the other.

Surrogate · January 10, 2022, 10:04:29 PM

Quote from: wapperdude on January 10, 2022, 09:23:50 PMit's hard to tell exactly, as the resolution isn't great, but it looks like this is about two views of same shape, and doesn't involve stencils.

just googled at picture - it looks like Cisco ONS 15454-M6-SA
Download stencil there

robmcvick · January 10, 2022, 10:10:41 PM

they are two master stencils and yes it is an ONS 15454. I got the stencils from the CISCO website

robmcvick · January 10, 2022, 10:23:55 PM

see attached

Surrogate · January 10, 2022, 10:24:34 PM

Quote from: robmcvick on January 10, 2022, 10:10:41 PMI got the stencils from the CISCO website

It is very ancient stencil (device not supported now), these master-shapes are not SVG-objects (emf)

robmcvick · January 10, 2022, 10:33:04 PM

I assume it is not possible then?

Surrogate · January 10, 2022, 10:41:09 PM

Quote from: robmcvick on January 10, 2022, 10:33:04 PM
I assume it is not possible then?

You need include front and rear view into one shape, which can show front and hide rear sub-shapes and vice-versa ?

wapperdude · January 10, 2022, 10:59:45 PM

First, some terminology. A stencil is a collection of shapes. What you show is two shapes from the Cisco stencil.

So, what you want to do can be done. See attached. This is a grouped shape, consisting of the two Cisco shapes, overlaid. Right click the group shape and it brings up menu with "Toggle View". Click this entry to toggle the view. There are other ways, but using Double Click event is a bit of a problem as the Cisco shapes use this event to bring up menu.

The Cisco shapes are images with some Visio functionality.

robmcvick · January 10, 2022, 11:23:10 PM

wapperdude,

how did you do that? and thank you.

wapperdude · January 11, 2022, 12:32:03 AM

I've updated the Visio file. Page 2 contains the steps for the creation process.