March 15, 2017 update notes for Visio by DPTPB stencil collection.

Completely rebuilt cable shapes

• Using thinner lines
  • old lines were 0,45 pt
  • new lines are 0,25 pt
• This leaves more room to run cables in busy drawings
  • can also use 1600% zoom level to space cables
  • sometimes required around busy switch shapes
• New labels within cable end shapes
  • even though original labels were vector based there was some scaling issues
  • Used more consistent way of making labels and they scale better now
  • Three types cable end shapes with labels
    • 1 row, three uppercase characters
      • 1G, 10G, 16G,32G
    • 1 row, four uppercase characters
      • 100G, 128G
    • 2 rows
      • row 1: max four lowercase / three uppercase characters
        • brcd,csco,ntap,ntnx,HPE
      • row 2: max two to three uppercase characters
        • 10, 40

Picture: Cable shape with 1 row / three character cable end shape

Picture: Cable shape with 1 row / four character cable end shape

Picture: Cable shape with 2 row cable end shape

Completely rebuilt placeholder shapes

• New dynamic shapes where font size scales with shape size
• Can change the text displayed using “Shape Data”
• Look like regular cable end shapes, but are built differently
• You can make custom placeholder shapes by changing
  • the size of the shape
  • the text shown in the shape (shape data window)
• Unfortunately the cable end shapes are built differently and I couldn’t make them dynamic, each has to be built separately and the text cannot be changed
• The difference is that with placeholder shapes the text is font, but with port end label shape I had to convert the font to regular visio shape (by using inkscape)

Picture: All placeholder shapes and one scaled placeholder shape

Re-organized shapes in stencil

• Place holders used as “headers” for shape classes
• DAC cables in grouped by vendor in alphabetical order
  • BRCD,CSCO,HPE,NTAP,NTNX

• HPE DAC cables 10GbE / 40GbE + matching placeholder shapes
  • Required with Nutanix when using HPE switch
  • Nutanix DAC cables are not supported with HPE switches
  • HPE DAC cables cannot be used with NetApp
    • Only Cisco DAC cables supported for host-side connections

Picture: Misc shapes in Visio “Shapes” window

Picture: IPMI, 1GbE & 10GbE shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

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Picture: Brocade DAC shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: Cisco DAC shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: HPE DAC shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: NetApp DAC shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: Nutanix DAC shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: 10GbE/25GbE/40GbE/50GbE/100GbE shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: Node1 & Node2 12G SAS Cable shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: Node1 & Node2 Quad-Path 12G SAS Cable shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: Transitional 12G-to-6G SAS Cable shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: Node1 & Node2 6G SAS Cable shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: NetApp ACP Cable shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: 4G/8G/16G/32G/128G FC Fiber shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: NetApp FCVI shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: ISL Fiber shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: Cable Decoder shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Picture: Misc2 shapes in Visio”Shapes” window

Added “Blocking” shape for ports and PCI slots

• Red Cross, tilted 45 degrees

Connection points to Cable Decoder Boxes

• for easier placement in rear view drawings
• New versions used in templates

Updated Universal Margin Shape

• used as background image for templates and drawings
• modified size of different fields, so that there is more room for “filename” field
• New version used in templates