Scale grid as a fill?

[captmikey]

I use visio as means to knock out quick floor plans and oftentimes I
need to print these floorplans ona stadard 8.5" x 11" sheet, so using
the architectual scale is limited.

I was wondering if there's a way to create a cross-hatch grid fill
that could be "squeezed/expanded" to simulate (roughly) 12" X 12"
squares? So if I drew a irregular floorplan with more than four (4)
walls, I could sort of double check my dimensioning and space flow by
filling with an always-square grid fill.

I hope I'm explaining this properly, and I hope someone tells me that
this is a pice of cake. I'm using MS Visio 2000,but I also have the
original Visio Standard.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Mike

 

[David Parker]

You can do this with a custom fill pattern. You will probably want to
create a scaled pattern. Unfortunately though, you will need to create a
different one for each different angle that you want. For example, if you
have 2 rooms, one with a tiling arrangement at 90 dg. to the page, and one
with a tiling arrangement at 45 deg. to the page, then you will have to
create 2 fill patterns.