Re: Dynamic Stencil drawing based on Custom Properties?

There's a couple of questions underneath that have to be answered. Since
these 'drawings' are for 'customers' will they require softcopy? You can be
pretty flexible on paper if the customer never wants to change them. How
accurate do the pictures have to be (i.e. do they want/need actual device
objects such as Cisco 3550 switchs, etc.)? On this you're only limited by
the three usual constraints (money, time, and imagination). There are
companies that will sell you suites of product data. Once again if the
contract was written appropriately these can be charged back to the
customer.
For my 'customer' I use the vendor product stencils (from cisco) and then
just populate the rack stencils that came with v2003. This eliminated the
need for creating new objects and that pesky worrying about "who owns the
drawing that you (presumably) were paid to create'. Some vendors already
have their products available for download for free (check John Marshall's
site www.mvps.org/visio).
The process of auto creating site drawings can be done (both physical and
logical).

al

"Bigwave" <Bigwave.20c50c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to model a connections between systems in a data center.
> Depending on the customer configuration the number of connections and
> ports on the switches will differ greatly.
>
> Is it possible to dynamically draw or show/hide the connector subshapes
> of a master stencil based on the value of a custom property? For
> instance if the custom property for entry ports is set to 2 then only
> draw 2 subshape ports. Or maybe I have to have a master stencil with
> say 4 ports and if I only need 2 hide the other 2.
>
> What is possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
> --
> BigwavePosted from - http://www.officehelp.in
>


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