Is there a limit on stencil size

[shane mcwhirk]

I draw cranes and detailed lift plans using visio. When I try to save my
large file size cranes as a stencil I get three or four different shaped
stencils that show up in the shapes window and the crane is not saved.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Visio has only one file format and the extension tells Visio how to open the
file. The inside of a Visio file can be broken down into two major portions;
the drawing(s) and the stencil. If you open a file as a drawing, you see the
drawing and the stencil shows as the document stencil. When you open as a
stencil you see the stencil portion, but not the drawings. So the limits to
a stencil are similar to the limits as a drawing.

So when creating the drawing, did you copy your drawing to the stencil
portion of the file? Just to make sure we are talking the same terms; the
drawing contains shapes and the stencil is a collection of master shapes.

It is possible to create a drawing without saving any shapes.

John... Visio MVP

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