1u patch visio

To change the patch panel properties to allow the resizing of the patch panel to 1U, follow these steps: Note If you follow these steps, the geometry of the patch panel shape will extend outside the boundaries of the patch panel when you resize the shape to 1U.

In the rack-mounted equipment US units pane or in the rack-mounted equipment metric pane, drag and draw the patch panel shape on your Visio page. With the patch panel shape selected, click Show ShapeSheet on the Window menu. In the Custom Properties section, change the Value box of the Prop. Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. Symptoms When you try to resize a Microsoft Office Visio or Microsoft Office Visio patch panel shape to 1U, you find that you can only resize the shape as small as 2U.

Cause This behavior occurs because if you resize the patch panel shape to 1U, the geometry the patch panel drawing detail extends outside the boundaries of the patch panel shape. Workaround To work around this behavior, use one of the following methods.

Method 1: Use the Shelf Shape Recommended The shelf shape is located in the rack-mounted equipment US units pane and in the rack-mounted equipment metric pane of the Shapes window. Method 2: Change the Patch Panel Properties To change the patch panel properties to allow the resizing of the patch panel to 1U, follow these steps: Note If you follow these steps, the geometry of the patch panel shape will extend outside the boundaries of the patch panel when you resize the shape to 1U.

You can now resize the patch panel shape to 1U. Status Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful?

Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? However, I have often required a 1U patch Panel, so I decided to look into the Microsoft shape to see if it could be modified to allow it to be reduced to 1U without looking ridiculous. I actually wanted the number of ports to be halved to 12, so I set about exploring the sub-shapes in the master. I found that Sheet. UCount equals 1. Then it was just necessary to go through each of the sub-shapes of Sheet. At this point, I could see that I had to put this formula into 12 geometry sections of 4 shapes, which is 48 copy and pastes!

Therefore, I decided to write some VBA code to do this instead. This has the advantage that you can run the code on existing documents that already have the Patch panel master in it. In fact, the Patch panel master must be in the local document stencil for this code to work. If you cannot be bothered to run the code, you can download the updated Patch panel and the code from here : click here. David Parker has 25 years' experience of providing data visualization solutions to companies around the globe.

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