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Exercise No. 3: Shapes Operations and Stencil Creation

COMP 311L: ECECAD

Name: _________________________________ ECE 3___ Date: ___________________

Objectives: In this exercise you will learn to: 1. Add shapes from the Standard toolbar 2. Use the Drawing Tools Toolbar 3. Add screen tips to shapes 4. Use Shape Operations 5. Create New Stencils 6. Add Shapes to Stencils 7. Use Other Shape Operations 8. Copy Shapes from one Stencils to Another 9. Remove Shapes from Stencils 10. Save Stencils

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Open Microsoft Visio 2007 from the Start Menu and then click the New button on the standard toolbar to create a New blank drawing. (If you cant see the Standard toolbar, right click on a toolbar or the menu bar and then click Standard option on the pop-up menu that appears.) What did you see on the Shapes pane? _______________________________________________________________________

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ADDING SHAPES FROM STANDARD TOOLBAR Access a preset stencils and shapes in Visio by using the Shapes button on the Standard toolbar (as shown below).

Choose a category named Business and choose category option Business Process. You should see a submenu of stencil option that you can choose from. Choose a stencil Basic Flowchart Shapes (Metric). What did you see on the Shapes pane? _______________________________________________________________________ 3. If you right click on some empty space on the Menu bar or a toolbar, what did you see? _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 5. Click the Drawing option. This action will display _______________________________ on your Visio Screen. Identify the following using tool tip when you place your mouse to each icon.

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USING THE DRAWING TOOLBAR On the Drawing Toolbar, click the Pencil button and then use your mouse to draw out some lies that connect in any way you like. Make sure that the shape is closed like the figure shown. (it form a solid shape)

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Next, drag on some of the small green diamonds (this is called the anchor point). What happen to the line when the green diamond is being dragged? _______________________________________________________________________ Note: If you let your mouse pointer hover over a green, diamond, your pointer will turn into a crossed arrow. When this happens, you can drag the green diamond handle to modify the shape.

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Next, drag some of the small green circles. What does this small green circle means? ____________________________________ Feel free to let your imagination run wild as you draw the shape.

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Create two more shapes using the Drawing toolbar.

10. Once you are finished drawing the shape, click the Pointer tool on the Standard toolbar to get your regular mouse pointer back. Next, double click inside you new shape. What opens up? ______________________________________________________________

11. In the text block, type a name (like my masterpiece!) for a given shape. Do this to the remaining two shapes. 12. ADDING SHAPE SCREEN TIPS Next, we are going to add Shape Screen Tips to a shape. To do this, first click the shape to select it, and then click the Insert menu followed by the Shape Screen Tip option. Once the shape Screen Tip dialogue appears on the Visio screen, type the screen-tip (type your name) in the area provided and then click OK button in the dialogue. The screen tip you typed will be implemented for the selected shape. 13. When the Screen Tip dialogue closes, move your mouse pointer over the shape for a moment. What happen? _________________________________________________________ 14. Create Shape Screen Tips to the other two shapes. 15. Fill the three shapes with color. 16. USING SHAPE OPERATIONS From the Basic Shapes (From the Shape under General), drag the following shapes in the grid area in exact order: Circle, Triangle and Hexagon. The drawing should look like in the next figure.

In the image, there are two shapes that overlap a third shape. You can change the stacking order of these shapes. To do this, click the Circle Shape then go to Shape menu>Order option. Write your observation to the selected shape if you choose the following option:

Bring to Front: _________________________________________________ Send Backward(2x): _____________________________________________ Bring Forward (2x): _____________________________________________ Send to Back: __________________________________________________ (You can also do these operation by right clicking on the shape and from the popup menu go to Shape option) 17. Hold the Ctrl button down and click the Circle shape and Triangle shape to select them both simultaneously. Next, click the Shape menu, followed by the Operations option followed by the Union option. What happen to the shape? ______________________________________________ 18. Next, hold the Ctrl button again and select the new shape created in the previous step, and the shape in behind (the Hexagon shape). Next, click the Shape Menu, followed by the Operations option, followed by Combine option. What happen to the shape? _______________________________________________ 19. Fill the shape with color red. Add screen tip and write: gnome! 20. CREATING NEW STENCILS Click the File menu followed by the Shapes option followed by the New Stencil option. (You can choose to create a new stencil in US units or Metric). What did you see on the Shapes Pane? _______________________________________ What is the name of the Stencil? ____________________________________________ 21. Right click on one of your new shape, and choose the Copy Drawing option from the pop up menu Next, place your mouse over the Shapes pane, right click, and select the Paste to paste the shapes into the new stencils. Then, what happen? __________________________________________________ What is the default name of the shape when added to your stencil? _____________________________________________________________________

22. You can also drag the shapes with your mouse from the drawing area to your stencil. Drag all the shapes that you have created to your stencil. 23. Right click the shape and choose Rename Master. Rename all the shapes you created and included in your stencils. This is how shapes in a stencil can be reused multiple times in many different drawings. 24. COPYING SHAPES FROM ONE STENCIL TO ANOTHER Open more stencils so you can choose the shapes you want to copy from to your stencil. Open the stencil that you want to copy from, and select the particular shape that you want to copy. (If you want to select multiple shapes in a stencil, hold down the shift button on your keyboard and click all the shapes you want to copy.) Once the shapes have been selected, right click on the selection and then choose the Copy option from the pop up menu. Next, open your stencil, right click on it, and choose Paste from the pop up menu. 25. Put at least 15 shapes on your stencil. Put all your favorite shapes on your stencil that you are going to use during all our activities. 26. REMOVING SHAPES FROM STENCILS To remove shape from an editable stencil (that is your stencil), right click on the shape in question and choose the Delete Master option from the pop up menu. Alternatively, you can click on a shape to select it, and then press the Delete key on your keyboard to remove the shape from the stencil. 27. SAVING STENCILS Once you are finish adding shapes to your own custom stencil, you are ready to save it. To save a newly created stencil. Click the small save button on the right side of the stencils title bar. What appears on your screen? _____________________________________________ 28. In the Save As dialogue, browse the folder that you want to store the stencil in. The File Name of your stencil will be SURNAMEfirstname_MyFAVE. What is in the Save As type field? ____________________________. Save the file in your folder.

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Exercise No. 4: Logo by Visio

COMP 311L: ECECAD

Name: _________________________________ ECE 3___ Date: ___________________ Comp No. ___

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Create a logo base on shapes Operations. Include your name and section in your logo. Use filename: Exer4_SURNAMEfirstname. In the Save as type, JPEG File Interchange Format. Add the logo to your stencil and save it.

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