How do I fill ?

[NAIT Instructor]

I am making a assignment for one of my classes. It
consists of two parts, one piece is a scale (part "A"),
the mating part I am hoping will fit over the top of it
(Part "B"). The problem is part "B" is a odd shape, I
drew it using the line tool on the standard tool bar.
This part is closed all the way around the perimeter. How
do I make it opaque so that part "A" is not visible when
I bring part "B" to the front?

 

[Dawn Wright [MSFT]]

You can try a few things:

- Redraw your shape. When you draw the line segments, the previous line
segment needs to be selected in order for Visio to connect the lines into
one shape (if it's not selected, Visio will create two different shapes).
The very first point must also be coincident with the very last point in
order for Visio to make the shape closed and "fillable."

- If you need to work with your existing lines, try this:
1) Select them all together and choose Shape > Operations > Join to make
them into one shape.
2) With the shape selected, choose Window > Show ShapeSheet
3) In the ShapeSheet cell that says "Geometry1.NoFill", change the value to
FALSE. This makes your shape fillable.
4) Now fill your shape.