Well, those are some mighty attractive speaker shapes! Not bad for a “flowcharting app, business graphics” application, eh? But since we’re stuck in 96-dpi-monitor-land right now, we’ll just zoom in to give you a better look: It’s a pretty attractive-looking speaker: it might even qualify for the Visio Art Page! And if you have a high-res printer, it looks even better. Take a look at this good-lookin’ speaker shape, which you’ll find on the Speakers stencil that comes with D-Tools System Integrator 5: Yes, we can hear the Adobe Illustrator guys over in the Art Department snickering, and see them looking down their noses…īut if we dip deep enough into our cauldron of Visio Black Magic, we can often find choice morsels to help us fight back!Īnd in today’s case, we get some really cool effects without using the ShapeSheet at all, so just about anybody can take advantage of these techniques! A Fine Speaker is a Work of Art

So in the quest to keep file size down, and performance up, Visio shape designers often shy away from adding too much detail to their SmartShapes. But the complexity of the ShapeSheet also adds bloat to even the simplest of shapes. Visio SmartShapes offer a wonderful vehicle for delivering powerful graphical objects with built-in intelligence without code. We’ll tear these SmartShapes apart and show how you can use custom line patterns and creative shadow techniques to add pizzazz to your shapes, without adding bloat!īeauty and Intelligence: Mutually Exclusive?Īh yes, the ShapeSheet giveth, and the ShapeSheet taketh away. In this article, we’ll look at some innovative A/V equipment shapes from D-Tools that offer the win-win scenario of good-looking and light weight. Attractive, realistic-looking Visio equipment shapes don’t have to be heavy and inefficient.

Visio speaker stencil