Visio – Drawing creation Review – New drawing and page setup Drawing with templates Creation and manipulation of objects

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/background=the background created earlier Load stencils Draw

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

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

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