Control radius of rounded corners

[Paul]

Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.

Thanks.

 

[Paul Herber]

Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.

select the shape(s)
menu Format -> Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.

 

[WapperDude]

If you want to slave it to the width and/or height, then you can enter a
formula in the shapesheet. Go to line format section, and in the rounding
cell, you can enter a formula like =0.3*MIN(Width,Height). This will take
the lesser of the two dimensions and scale the rounding by factor of 0.3.

Enjoy!
Wapperdude

 

[Paul]

select the shape(s)
menu Format -> Line
and select from the rounding area, you acn set a rounding radius
manually.

Hi, Paul,

The resulting menu shows a perfectly pointy corner. Even pressing
some of the rounded corners and clicking Apply doesn't round the
corner of the rectangle. Would your method be for lines/interconnects
rather than shapes/rectangles?

 

[Paul]

If you want to slave it to the width and/or height, then you can enter a
formula in the shapesheet.  Go to line format section, and in the rounding
cell, you can enter a formula like =0.3*MIN(Width,Height).  This willtake
the lesser of the two dimensions and scale the rounding by factor of 0.3.

Thanks, Wapper...unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the
rounding area to work.

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi, Paul,

The resulting menu shows a perfectly pointy corner. Even pressing
some of the rounded corners and clicking Apply doesn't round the
corner of the rectangle. Would your method be for lines/interconnects
rather than shapes/rectangles?

No, it seems to work on most shapes, I've just tried it on the PC
shape from the Computers and Monitors stencil. That looks rather
funny!

 

[WapperDude]

Both Paul H.'s and my method should work. Are you trying this on a rectangle
that you've already tried to alter? You might want to try a fresh shape.
Other than guarding the rounding, I'm not aware of any other protection that
might keep a normal rectangle from having rounded corners.

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Is there a way to control the radius of rounding for the rounded
corners of a rectangle? I opened up the shape sheet, and it looks
like it might be controlled in the "Geometry 1" table. Ideally, I'd
like the rounding radius to scale with the minimum of the height and
width, but manually specifying it would be just as good.

Thanks.

Since you refer to Geometry1, it appears you are within the shapesheet. Each
shape can have only one rounding value, so the value is stored in a seperate
Section called Line Format. The cell is the last one in the group and is
called Rounding. If you set the value to 5in for a 10in square, you will get
a circle.

John...

 

[Paul]

I looked at protection, too, from two avenues

1. Right click top item (file name) in Drawing Explorer, go to Protect
Document. All boxes unchecked. Check them all, click OK. Then
repeat, except uncheck all boxes.

2. In the diagram, Select All, Format->Protection. All boxes
unchecked. Check all boxes, click OK. Repeat, excpet uncheck all
boxes.

However, for a virgin blank document, the corner rounding buttons do
work. Very strange....

 

[Paul]

Since you refer to Geometry1, it appears you are within the shapesheet. Each
shape can have only one rounding value, so the value is stored in a seperate
Section called Line Format. The cell is the last one in the group and is
called Rounding. If you set the value to 5in for a 10in square, you will get
a circle.

John,

What you say works with a fresh rectangle. However, it doesn't work
with shape File->Shapes->BlockDiagram->BasicShapes->RoundedRectangle.
The rounding is not affected either Format->Lines->RoundCorners, nor
Window->ShowShapeSheet->LineFormat->Rounding. Though this particular
shape doesn't have it, I noticed that the original shape that didn't
obey the rounding buttons had telling rows in the Geometry1 table --
basically, a series of alternating rows labelled "Arc To" and "Line
To". Perhaps this original shape has the rounding hard coded in as
Arc To parameters. That doesn't explain why the fresh
"RoundedRectangle" doesn't obey the rounding buttons.

 

[Paul Herber]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:25:39 -0700 (PDT), Paul

Would you like to email me the offending document?
paul
at
pherber
dot
com

 

[Paul Herber]

John,

What you say works with a fresh rectangle. However, it doesn't work
with shape File->Shapes->BlockDiagram->BasicShapes->RoundedRectangle.

Of all the shapes, that is one where the corner rounding is purposely
done in a different manner. The rounding is controlled by the yellow
control handle. This changes the value in a cell which in itself
changes the shape geometry.

 

[Paul]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:25:39 -0700 (PDT), Paul


Would you like to email me the offending document?
paul
at
pherber
dot
com

Thanks for the offer, paul. I think you answered this in another
post!

P.

 

[Paul]

Of all the shapes, that is one where the corner rounding is purposely
done in a different manner. The rounding is controlled by the yellow
control handle. This changes the value in a cell which in itself
changes the shape geometry.

Why...you're right! It works way better than trying to muck with some
of the hard coded multiplicative numbers in the shape sheet. I got
some rather knobby looking corners from doing that.

Am I missing something in Visio about pulling up context/shape
sensitive help or instructions? It would seem to make sense for
shapes that can be made to have all sorts of different and complicated
"smart" behaviour.

 

[Paul Herber]

Why...you're right! It works way better than trying to muck with some
of the hard coded multiplicative numbers in the shape sheet. I got
some rather knobby looking corners from doing that.

See what happens when we all Paul together as a team!

Am I missing something in Visio about pulling up context/shape
sensitive help or instructions? It would seem to make sense for
shapes that can be made to have all sorts of different and complicated
"smart" behaviour.

All built-in shapes have a help identifier, Some take you to a special
help page for that shape, many don't, many that used to now don't.

 

[Paul]

See what happens when we all Paul together as a team!

How does one do an exceptionally loud groan using these texting
symbols?

All built-in shapes have a help identifier, Some take you to a special
help page for that shape, many don't, many that used to now don't.

GROAN.

Thanks very much, Paul.