Creating Master Shapes from Imported Pictures

[HWahdan]

Greetings,

I'm in desparate need of help. I'm in the process of creating a stencil of
network equipment that my company has deployed. I've been fortunate to find
a number of the shapes on line. Unfortunately, some of the equipment is
obsolete, BUT I have pictures. Here's my question: How would I create
master shapes of these pictures to be used in Visio 2003. I've downloaded
ShapeStudio and played around with that but I can't seem to get it correct.
As a reference, I'm trying to duplicate what one would find on NetZoom. What
are the steps in creating a master shape? I've gone through the tutorial
that is supplied with ShapeStudio but unfortunately that tutorial doesn't
apply. Has anyone created master shapes from pictures?

Thanks for any input.

HW

 

[Paul Herber]

Greetings,

I'm in desparate need of help. I'm in the process of creating a stencil of
network equipment that my company has deployed. I've been fortunate to find
a number of the shapes on line. Unfortunately, some of the equipment is
obsolete, BUT I have pictures. Here's my question: How would I create
master shapes of these pictures to be used in Visio 2003. I've downloaded
ShapeStudio and played around with that but I can't seem to get it correct.
As a reference, I'm trying to duplicate what one would find on NetZoom. What
are the steps in creating a master shape? I've gone through the tutorial
that is supplied with ShapeStudio but unfortunately that tutorial doesn't
apply. Has anyone created master shapes from pictures?

At the very simplest level:
Create a new stencil
menu File -> Shapes -> New

Open the pictures in your image editor, select, copy

and paste into the new stencil.