Introduction to Shapes in Visio 2003
Visio provides several shapes, grouped into stencils, that can be used for creating different kinds of diagrams.
A Visio diagram comprises of three elements namely Shapes, Connectors and Text items. Visio provides several shapes, grouped into stencils, that can be used for creating different kinds of diagrams. Shapes in a diagram can be connected to each other using connectors.
Connectors can be attached to shapes in such a manner that when the shapes are moved around within a diagram, the end points of the connectors stay glued to the shapes they are connected to. Each shape may have several such connection points. Some shapes also come with a Rotation Handle using which the shape can be rotated around within the drawing plane. Certain shapes also come with special handles that enables certain characteristics of the shape to be modified discretely such as the tail shape of an Arrow Object.
