Line Alignment

[AdrianJMartin]

Is there anyway to set how the line sits on its path, ie centre, outside ,
inside.

I need to create a box with a given size and corner radius and stroke width.

 

[Chris [Visio MVP]]

You can dink around insided the ShapeSheet to do this, but it's not super
straightforward.

Window > Show ShapeSheet will give you a spreadsheet that manages the
properties for a shape.


There's a LineWeight cell that controls the thickness of the line - this
changes when you set Format > Line or similar via the user interface.

The Geometry sections control the vectors for the shape.

You can enter Excel-style formulas in any cell, so you could create a shape
that has an inner or outer line-path. There's no UI setting for this
unfortunately.

For a rectangle with line hanging on the inside, the geometry formulas look
like this:

X Y
1. LineWeight/2 LineWeight/2
2. Width - LineWeight/2 Geometry1.Y1
3. Geometry1.X2 Height - LineWeight/2
....

 

[AdrianJMartin]

Thx!

I didn't even know that window existed!! Perhaps I should read the manual!

Adrian

 

[Chris [Visio MVP]]

Uh, manual probably won't help (wink wink)

Just stick with Google and us! : )

- Chris