Bendable Rectangle

[dafishe]

Hi there,

I was wondering if any of the Visio templates offer a pre-built "bendable rectangle" shape?     

Thanks,
Doug

[wapperdude]

Not that I know of.

[Paul Herber]

What do you mean by bendable? How would you expect the vertices/edges to act?

[wapperdude]

Kinda like Superman bending a pipe, only 2D...

OK, how about like the curved arrow, only without the arrowhead...

Well, those would be my guesses   

[dafishe]

I need to mark street delivery routes on some maps.  Few residential streets are straight, so a bendable rectangle shape would take care of them all.  The rectangle would be a transformation of a line-curve connector shape I guess.

A curved arrow without the arrow head would be about right.  Is there a curved arrow?  Maybe it can be decomposed.

[vojo]

could look at bendable arrow to get the idea of how to make a bendable rectangle
Or
could set see if the controls on bendable arrow head could be basically collapse the arrow head

[wapperdude]

Not sure if Vojo and I are talking about the same shape...

I placed the shape I was thinking of on the attached drawing.

Removing the arrowhead will be involved as there are a lot of scratch formulas to do position calcs of each vertex.

[dafishe]

Thanks guys, that's the idea.  Since nothing seems to exist, I think I can work with the "partial layer" shapes as they are somewhat flexible.  Thanks for your help!