How to unglue

[Timboi]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Visio and my terminology is probably way off so I'll try
to describe a problem as well as I can.
I'm trying to figure out how to get 2 shapes to not glue to each other.
For example, I start a new home plan and start by adding a 'Room', then drag
a 'Wall' onto the edge of the room. The wall snaps to the room and glues
(i.e. small red square where the 2 connect). How do I get rid of this square?
I'd thought logically that going to Tools>Snap and Glue and uncheck glue,
but whenever I pull the wall anywhere near the room it still displays a red
square where they are connected.

Cheers,

Tim

 

[David Parker]

Are you trying to put a wall end close, but not not touching, another wall?
Why? Are your walls not joined to each other?

We once did some consultancy for an international company that had hundreds
of flowcharts drawn in Visio, and no connectors were connected to any of the
boxes because someone had told them that the red box was a sign that
something was wrong, so the should move the end slightly away!

Red indicates you have a sucessful connection, whereas green indicates that
you have not. (Neither print as they are only visible when you have the
shape selected)

Generally, the closer you zoom in, the closer you need to be before the glue
happens....

 

[John Goldsmith]

Hello Tim,

You're on the right track, but there's a couple of things that preventing
you from getting the results you're after.

Ordinarily you turning off glue setting via the menu won't effect existing
glue within the drawing, only subsequent glue operations. If you turn off
glue then move the shape away from its target shape (unglue it) and then
move it back to the correct position it won't re-glue. You can then turn
glue back on so your other shapes get the right treatment. In this
situation, you might find it useful to have the Snap & Glue toolbar visible
(View/Toolbars).

Now unfortunately for your problem the Floor Plan solution is doing glueing
behind the scenes. It's basically being thoughtful and helping you with the
snapping so that if you move the wall close to, or over, another wall it
thinks you want them to be joined and that's exactly what it does.

I guess there are a number of work arounds to this, but the most simple
would be to draw your own wall with the rectangle tool
(View/Toolbars/Drawing). If you have more complex requirements then there
are other routes, but why do you not want the wall to be glued in the way
that happening at the moment?

Anyway, hope that helps.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[Philippe C.]

Maybe his problem is with
Tools, Options, Snap and glue, Advanced tab, Snap strength.

On the other hand it may be confusing that when a wall is dragged, another
follows.
People not familiar with Ctrl Z don't dare to drop the wall.