Use of old Visio Technical 5.0 databases

[Bob in Houston]

I have upgraded to Visio Professional 2003. The old stencils like Steel and
Aluminum Shapes.VSS and Nuts-Bolts-Screws.VSS aren't there anymore. I have
tried moving the VSS, VST and TBX files to the new Visio subdirectroy, but
they don't work.

You get the shape, but the database no longer pops up. Anyone know to get
them to work?

Bob

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

There is an add-in associated with those shapes, so you will need. The
shapes were removd from Visio after Visio acquired Microsoft because those
shapes were licensed from a third party.

I have not looked at it in a while, but there may be a file associated with
the shapes giving the various configurations and sizes.

John... Visio MVP

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