Hello all, if anyone is interested in a (free) Visio stencil for designing a woodworking shop, I have created one and posted it at
- Harvey
snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net (Harvey Chute) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:
Thanks for the template and the link. I'm working on a new shop plan and your template will be very useful.
LD
This is sooo cool. Bravo! I haven't opened it in Visio yet, but your webpage alone makes me confident it'll work great. I don't even need to do a new layout for some time but knowing this exists is an inspiration. Well done.
I've always struggled with Visio -- only got it because a consultant did flow charts with it and I wanted to be able to edit them One of the frustrations with it is that it clearly is still designed for a longstanding installed base going back to V1.0 Commands are not at all intuitive, IMO. For example: Why are they called "stencils"? IIRC, they are listed under File, not Edit. Why? Wahts' worse, IMO: If you did not know they are called stencils, see if you could find anything about such "thingies" in Help. I couldn't!!! (Of course, there is the infinitesimally small possibility that it's just me.)
Anyway, again, great job. -- Igor
Nice Job Harvey !!! I love Visio for its simplicity.
Rich
Nice!
Thanks for making them available to us. I plan to use them.
Barry
igor wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
The 'Stencils' thing is because you used to be able to buy plastic stencils with cut out shapes for flowcharting, drafting, etc. Looked just like the Visio stencils, including the color. I think they still sell them in office supply places. IIRC, I saw some at Staples.
LD
snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net (Harvey Chute) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:
Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Cheers,
Lowell Kinzer snipped-for-privacy@acm.org
Thanks Harvey - I have squirreled these files away until I move and start building a proper shop.
Harvey...
Thank you!
That makes sense. Just seems to me (rant) that if MS wants new customers they should consider that people may not get that connection - at least not retrospectively. FWIW. Again, great job.
I've still got some of the flowcharting templates - not only for computers but for punched card machines - and a "slide rule" for determining throughput on those old machines :-).
It's fun to notice them occasionally and reflect on how much things have changed in 50 years :-).
Hi Harvey,
I've tried opening both the template and the stencil in Visio
2003 and get a message saying they are not a Visio file or they are corrupted. I've tried downloading them a second time and get the same error.-- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA (Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)
My first remote terminal connected at 150 baud (or was it 75?) and the memory device was paper tape.
igor wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
In the beginning ... Visio was not a MS product. I bought a version 1.0 waay back when and stopped upgrading after the Borg bought them out. Gotta admit that stencils were never all that intuitive, especially if you'd never used the real ones.
igor wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
You had terminals? I keyed the stuff in on the front panel!
Nova wrote in news:40DB73DB.926CBFD6 @adelphia.net:
Sigh! I hadn't tried yet, but now discover they were created with a newer version of Visio and my version (4.5 Professional) refuses to open them. Perhaps you are seeing the same problem.
Still a really cool idea.
Harvey, if you're reading, can you save for older versions of Visio?
It was most likely 110 baud, same speed as the teletype machines.
Dave "been there, done that" Hinz
Arrgh! I will look into that and see if I can save them so they're compatible with other versions! I'm running Visio2000 Standard Edition, so it surprises me that later versions wouldn't read it - - but I'll look into it and post my findings here. Thanks for letting me know.
- Harvey
That does sound vaguely familiar, but my recollection is that everything was a multiple of 75 -- 75, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600. So, I won't bet on it, but I'm sticking with my first answer, Regis.
Hi,
For those in need of a CAD program to use the templates look at the following write up.
IntelliCAD 2000
A complete and professional-quality CAD package compatible with Autodesk's .dwg format
IntelliCAD was originally released by Visio Corporation and was designed to be completely interchangeable with AutoCAD R14. It got close but lacks the
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There are many full featured applications there for the downloading.
Most Barnes & Noble Bookstores carry the PCPLUS magazine, which each month has attached 2 or more CD's or DVD's with loads of Software.
good luck to all
Jim
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