Associating Shapes and Adding Text in Visio 2007

Sticking Connectors

There are numerous ways of interfacing connectors among shapes, and we’ll go over them here, now that we’ve covered the fundamentals of taking care of paste. The manner in which you make associations depends on you — you can choose from among every one of the accompanying strategies.

Hauling Shapes

This first method is a quick one that assists you with making drawings quickly. It permits you to haul however many shapes as you need from the Shapes window to the drawing surface, and associations are made naturally. The connectors utilized are shape-to-shape.
This is the way to make this work:

1. Select the Connector device. This device is simply to one side of the Text instrument (which shows a huge A).
2. Select the shape to associate with in the drawing surface. You really want to choose the shape to interface with this method for making this strategy work.
3. Drag the shape you need to interface with the drawing surface. Visio attracts a shape-to-shape connector between the two shapes.
4. Rehash the former strides until every one of the associated shapes you need are shown. Remember to change the mouse pointer back to the standard one by tapping the mouse pointer apparatus in the toolbar.

This is one of the most straightforward approaches to making connectors — utilizing the Connector instrument and allowing Visio to accomplish the work for you.

Drawing Connectors with the Connector Instrument

You can likewise utilize the Connector instrument to draw associations between existing shapes. What’s more, contingent upon how you draw the connector, you’ll get either a highlight direct connector or a shape-toward shape connector.

This is the way to make a highlight point connector:

1. Select the Connector apparatus. This instrument is simply to one side of the Text device (which shows a huge A).
2. Move the mouse pointer over an association point on a shape on the drawing surface. The association point becomes illustrated in red.
3. Press the mouse button. This starts the association interaction.
4. Drag the mouse pointer to another’s shape association point. This attracts the highlight point connector.
5. Discharge the mouse button. This attracts the highlight point connector.

That makes a highlight point connector between any two shapes utilizing the Connector instrument.

This is the way to make a shape-to-shape connector utilizing the Connector device in Visio:

1. Select the Connector instrument. This instrument is simply to one side of the Text device (which shows a huge A).
2. Move the mouse pointer to a shape (not association point). The shape becomes framed in red.
3. Press the mouse button. This starts the association cycle.
4. Drag the mouse pointer to another’s shape association point. This attracts the shape-to-shape connector.
5. Discharge the mouse button. This attracts the highlight point connector.

What’s more, that is all there is to it — attracting shape-to-shape connectors is simple with the Association instrument.
As may be obvious, drawing connectors utilizing the Connector instrument is simple and helpful.

Utilizing the Associate Shapes Component

Here is a simple method for associating numerous shapes on the double — you can utilize the Interface Shapes device, which shows up in the Activity toolbar. Utilizing this apparatus, you can associate various shapes immediately, as displayed in Figure 3.11.

 

The Interface Shapes device shows two boxes isolated upward, with a red line associating them. It’s the third apparatus from the left in the Activity toolbar, and it shows up at the area of the mouse pointer in Figure 3.11.

This is the way you associate different shapes utilizing the Associate Shapes device in Visio:

1. Select the Pointer device on the Standard toolbar. This device is the standard mouse bolt pointer.
2. Holding down the Shift key, click the primary shape to interface. The shape becomes chosen.
3. Then, actually holding down the Shift key, click different shapes you need to interface. Ensure you click them in the request you maintain that the associations should follow.
4. Click the Associate Shapes device in the Activity toolbar. This makes the connectors show up.

Furthermore, that is all there is to it — a simple method for interfacing different shapes. On the off chance that you could do without the way that Visio has associated your shapes, simply drag the endpoints of connectors to where you need them.

Utilizing Programmed Connectors

As of Visio 2007, you can likewise utilize programmed connectors to make associations between shapes. You’ve as of now see programmed connectors at work, and we’ll survey the ways of utilizing them here.

The primary strategy allows you to make connectors as you add shapes to an outline. This is the carefully guarded secret:

1. Put a shape on the drawing surface. This is the shape that you will interface with.
2. Drag the shape you need to associate with the primary shape. You’ll see four light blue triangles; these are programmed association focuses.
3. Move the second shape around until one of the programmed association focuses on the first shape turns dim. This is the association point that the subsequent shape will interface with.
4. Drop the subsequent shape. Visio associates the shapes utilizing the programmed association point you’ve chosen.

Here is the subsequent strategy — this is a decent procedure if you as of now have existing shapes that you need to interface:

1. Select the shape you need to associate from. Visio shows programmed association focuses.
2. Float over the programmed association point you need to utilize. Visio obscures the association point.
3. Ensure that the objective shape shows up with a red box around it. Visio chooses the objective shape it thinks you need to associate with naturally by encompassing it in a red box.
4. Click the dim blue programmed association point. Visio draws the connector between the shapes.

What’s more, here’s the third strategy. Let’s assume you have a shape currently on the drawing surface, and need to attract a shape associated with that unique shape. This is the way you can make it happen:

1. Ensure that the first shape is on the drawing surface. This is the shape that Visio will interface with.
2. Select the subsequent shape, the one you need an association with. Do this by featuring the second shape in the Shapes window.
3. Drift the mouse over the first shape until the programmed association focuses show up. These programmed association focuses are light blue.
4. Move the mouse until one of the programmed association focuses becomes a striking shade of blue. That is the way you select where the subsequent shape will interface with.
5. Discharge the mouse button. Visio draws the shape chosen in the Shapes window, and associates it to the first shape consequently, utilizing the programmed association point you’ve chosen.

Utilizing the Connector Stencil

Visio accompanies a unique connector stencil, which you can show in your own layouts. Simply select Record > Shapes > Visio Additional items > Connectors to show the Connector stencil.
You can see the Connector stencil at the left in Figure 3.12.
You can drag a connector from the Connectors stencil to the drawing surface, then, at that point, interface the endpoints to association focuses on the shapes. You can see this at work in Figure 3.12, in which heptagons are associated.

You can likewise utilize the Associate Shapes instrument:

1. Select the Pointer device on the Standard toolbar. This apparatus is the standard mouse bolt pointer.
2. Select Record > Shapes > Visio Additional items > Connectors to show the Connector stencil. The custom connector stencil shows up.
3. Click the connector you need to utilize. The connector becomes chosen.
4. Holding down the Shift key, click the principal shape to associate. The shape becomes chosen.
5. Then, at that point, actually holding down the Shift key, click different shapes you need to associate. Ensure you click them in the request you believe that the associations should follow.
6. Click the Associate Shapes apparatus in the Activity toolbar. This makes the connectors show up.

Hauling Connectors from Stencils

A few standard stencils likewise contain connectors. For instance, the Essential Shapes stencil of the Fundamental Chart layout contains a Unique connector and a Line-Bend connector. You can drag the connectors you find in stencils to the drawing surface and afterward associate the endpoints of the connector to association focuses on shapes.
The majority of the connectors you’ll find in the different standard stencils likewise show up in the extraordinary connector stencil, which you can open with Document > Shapes > Visio Additional items > Connectors.

This is the way to utilize the connectors you’ll track down in different standard stencils:

1. Select the Pointer device on the Standard toolbar. This instrument is the standard mouse bolt pointer.
2. Select the connector you need and drag it onto the drawing surface. The connector shows up on the drawing surface.
3. To make a highlight point connector, drag an endpoint of the connector to an association point until the association point shows up inside a little red box.
4. Drop the endpoint on the association point. A little dim red box ought to show up at the join of the connector and the association point.
5. To make a shape-to-shape connector, drag an endpoint of the connector to a shape until the shape shows up inside a red box. Drop the endpoint on the shape. A dazzling red box ought to show up at the join of the connector and the association point.

Rehash the interaction for all endpoints of your new connectors.

You can likewise utilize the Interface Shapes instrument:

1. Select the Pointer device on the Standard toolbar. This apparatus is the standard mouse bolt pointer.
2. Select Document > Shapes > Visio Additional items > Connectors to show the connector stencil. The custom connector stencil shows up.
3. Click the connector you need to utilize. The connector becomes chosen.
4. Holding down the Shift key, click the primary shape to associate. The shape becomes chosen.
5. Then, actually holding down the Shift key, click different shapes you need to interface. Ensure you click them in the request you believe that the associations should follow.
6. Click the Associate Shapes apparatus in the Activity toolbar. This makes the connectors show up.

Moving Connectors Around

Connectors are in no way, shape or form absolutely trapped set up — you can move them around as you need. That is great to be aware, in light of the fact that while you’re making drawings, things change and move around. At the end of the day, on the off chance that you conclude that a connector would be better in somewhere else, moving it is simple.

This is the way to move a connector:

1. Select the Pointer apparatus on the Standard toolbar. This apparatus is the standard mouse bolt pointer.
2. Select the connector you need to move. The connector’s endpoints show up.
3. Drag the connector’s endpoint to its new area. The connector moves to your new area.
4. To make a highlight point connector, drag the endpoint of the connector to an association point until the association point shows up inside a little red box. Drop the endpoint on the association point. A little dim red box
5. ought to show up at the join of the connector and the association point.
6. To make a shape-to-shape connector, drag an endpoint of the connector to a shape until the shape shows up inside a red box. Drop the endpoint on the shape. A dazzling red box ought to show up at the join of the connector and the association point.
   Rehash the cycle for all endpoints of the connector you need to move.

All in all, to move a connector, just reconnect its endpoints. That is everything necessary — Visio will wrap up.