Visio Drawing creation

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Visio Drawing creation

• Review New drawing and page setup
• Drawing with templates
• Creation and manipulation of objects

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Review Steps to create a new drawing

• Open Visio
• File/New/New Drawing or Select Type
• Create new drawing
• Set drawing scale with File/Page Setup/Drawing
  scale
• Create background
• Edit/GoTo/Page/New
• Set page type to Background
• Draw the background
• Set foreground page to use background
• File/Page Setup/Page Properties/backgroundthe
  background created earlier
• Load stencils
• Draw

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Stencil based drawing

• Stencils collections of pre-drawn objects
• Important categories
• Block diagrams
• Flowcharts
• Electrical Engineering circuits
• Mechanical Engineering Mechanical components
• Process Engineering Process flow diagrams
• Miscellaneous Title blocks / drawing tool
  shapes / Dimensioning
• Method
• Select stencil
• Drag shape to drawing and size shape
• Example
• Flowchart
• circuit

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Creation and manipulation of objects

• Stencils and fundamental drawing tools can be
  used to create new objects
• Fundamental tools
• Line/curve
• Rectangle/circle
• Text Tool
• Shape manipulation
• Grouping
• Ordering
• Rotation
• Operation
• Union
• Subtraction

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Formatting of objects

• Shading / fill
• Lines
• Single color
• 2 D Objects
• Simple solid
• Single color and multicolor patterns
• Patterns with stencils
• Line
• Color
• Weight
• End types / Cap type
• Line pattern