How do you make a circular gradient?

[rreynard]

I want to create a gradient that fills in a circle as you rotate from 0
degrees through 360 degrees. Is there any way to do this in Visio?

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Visio allows you to create a gradient on a circle that changes denisty from
the center of a circle to the outside. What you seem to be asking for is a
way to change the density as the angle changes, something that is not
supported in Visio. It may be possible to create the same effect by using
VBA to change the shape into thin pie slices and assign progressively
different shades.

John... Visio MVP

Need stencils or ideas? http://www.mvps.org/visio/3rdparty.htm
Need VBA examples? http://www.mvps.org/visio/VBA.htm
Common Visio Questions http://www.mvps.org/visio/common_questions.htm

 

[rreynard]

John, thank you for your response.

I did end up making many different slices and colored each one with a shade
of grey. This took some time. Now I want to make a duplicate of
this.....but, when I paste the image back down, all of my sequential shading
gets messed up and the coloring is completely wrong. This happens even if I
group the image first.

To me, it looks like many of the small 'arc's' are getting inverted so that
instead of each being, say 5 degrees, each arc is 355 degrees (with the
orginial 5 degree section uncolored). I had to be very careful even when
drawing these arcs as sometimes they would flip on me this way as well.

Any thoughts on how do copy or duplicate the drawing? (Even the duplicate
command gives the same wrong results).

thanks