Visio Fill Patterns pre-built?

[phf]

Anyone know of a commercial offering of pre-built custom Visio Fill Patterns?
We've found some fills (
http://www.shapesource.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=143 ) that are 3-D
and high quality, but really we're looking for a big library of all different
kinds of lines, dashed, dotted, slanted both directions, alternating solid
and dashed lines, etc., that would be ideal. I'm aware of using custom fills
but none of us have the time to screw around with Visio and surely someone
has done it better already... TIA

Please respond in the newsgroup.

 

[Chris Roth [Visio MVP]]

Hi Phf,

Under Shapes > Visio Extras, there are two stencils full of custom fill
patterns:

Custom Patterns - Scaled
Custom Patterns - Unscaled

When you open these stencils, the fill patterns that they contain become
available to all open documents via the various fill-formatting UI
dialogs, toolbars, etc.

I also have some articles and downloads on my site that relate to
creating custom patterns in Visio:

http://www.visguy.com/tag/custom-patterns/

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP


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