Calculate Distance

[Sydious]

I am very new to visio, but work well with the other office applications.
If I were to have a scaled drawing of say a warehouse, can visio be set up
to calculate and display/use the distance between shapes in the drawing?

So If I wanted to see how much distance needed to travel from point A to
point B to point C and display the total distance between those shapes?

 

[Sydious]

The more I think about this I asume I would have to do this by linking to a
databse or spread sheet or something. Am I on the right path?

 

[Al Edlund]

There are a couple of ways to do this...
a.) you can use the dimensioning-architectural stencil to lay out
measurements
b.) depending what you are looking for you may end up writing code (a common
project in networking is to do cable runs) that take advantage of an
internal object
called "lengthiu" which automatically calculates the length of an object
based upon
it's geometry.
al