Works great for me. I use Visio at work also, and yes, MicroSloth did in
fact buy them.
Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@... > -----Original Message-----
> From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:04 PM
> To: 'motm@onelist.com'
> Subject: [motm] Patch Diagramming
>
>
> From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
>
>
> Are any of you familiar with an iconic drawing program called
> "Visio"? It's
> a great way of quickly dragging/dropping pre-defined shapes onto a vector
> drawing field and dynamically connecting the shapes. It gives you a lot of
> flexible options for designing your own shapes with "magic" properties,
> connectors that follow shapes around as you move them, etc.
>
> I use it at work to maintain drawings of our massive & constantly changing
> server room racks, showing connections, etc. I can even assign URLs to the
> elements, in this case the IP addresses of the manageable
> switches, &c., so
> just double-clicking on a drawing of a switch brings up an HTML management
> console. It's very fast, very cool.
>
> Rumor is Microsoft just bought them. Their products have always dovetailed
> very smoothly with MS Office.
>
> Anyway, I mention it because, while this program is fantastic for org
> charts, network diagrams, etc., I've recently been thinking that
> it would be
> worth making a stencil bar of MOTM modules. then for patch sheets, all I
> need do is drag the modules I'm using off the palette ("Stencil")
> bar, drag
> colored connecting lines that will dynamically change as I shuffle the
> modules around on the 'page,' and viola! Completely consistent,
> professional, yet customized patch diagrams.
>
> I haven't had a chance to do this yet, but I plan to. I wouldn't
> mind giving
> out the stencil that I create; maybe Paul would even put it on
> his site as a
> freebie for MOTM users.
>
> I was actually thinking of three stencils: one with 'realistic'
> drawings of
> the modules for designing systems, one with more 'stylized' versions for
> recording settings, etc., and one using the classic symbolic patch system
> developed in the Seventies (circles for sources, triangles for modifiers,
> rectangles for controllers, etc.).
>
> On the other hand, if no one else has Visio, this doesn't help you much.
> Dell used to give away a free "Lite" copy on their PCs for a
> while, but they
> stopped doing this.
>
>
>
>
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