hwamob.blogg.se - Dell visio stencils

Right click on the header for the Stencil, in the 'Shapes' window and choose 'Save'.ġ4.

Close the Stencil window and save changes when prompted.ġ3.

in the 'Scratch' pane, insert the recorded values for width and height in for the values of X and Y respectively.ġ2.

Height = GUARD(Width*Scratch.Y1/Scratch.X1) Click on the 'Insert' menu (top of Visio screen), and choose 'Section': Click on the 'Window' menu (top of Visio screen), and choose 'Show ShapeSheet' again.ĩ.

'Behavior' : Change 'Interaction Style' to 'Line (1-dimensional)'Ĩ.

'Protection' : Deselect everything except 'Aspect ratio'.

Go back to the stencil window, again making sure that the device is selected, and then go to the 'Format' menu and choose: In the 'Shape Transform' pane, get the Width and Height and record them for later, and then close the ShapeSheet window.ħ. In the 'ShapeSheet' window, there will be sub-panes. Click on the 'Window' menu (top of Visio screen), and choose 'Show ShapeSheet'.Ħ. Click on the device stencil so that it is selected.ĥ. This will bring up this stencil in it's own window.Ĥ. Double click on the individual device stencil that you want to adjust. Right click on the header for the Stencil, in the 'Shapes' window and choose 'Edit Stencil'.ģ.

So, in order to fix this, here's what you do:Ģ. They don't constrain the dimensions of the device stencil, so that when you make it bigger, it keeps the right shape in both directions, or it tries to anchor in the middle of the device instead of at the bottom, which is how you want. However, quite often the stencils for the servers and other devices are not configured correctly for this. You can also get stencils of racks, which have anchor points to allow you to attach servers and switches etc, such that you can see how they will all fit in your rack. You can find a lot of them at Visio Cafe. The ones in question, are realistic representations of the devices, with real device dimensions etc. So you can get a lot of free Visio stencils from the various hardware vendors, such as Dell, Cisco etc. This is a bit of an odd one, but it's proven very useful to me when planning where to put all your hardware, i.e.