Filling Geometry

[K. Kazinski]

Hi

I have a master that is a hex within a hex. I drew the lines in the geometry section. I now have two geometries. When I try and fill either of them the fill does not work. Do I have to change a setting for each of the geometries

Also, my master is supposed to be 1", but the selection box is smaller than my master any ideas

Thanks

Ke

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

If both geometry sections are in the same shapesheet, when you add a fill
colour the result should be like a doughnut. A single shape can have only
one text box, one fill colour, one text colour and one line colour.

If you need more you group several shapes together.

What result were you expecting?

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Hi,

I have a master that is a hex within a hex. I drew the lines in the

geometry section. I now have two geometries. When I try and fill either of
them the fill does not work. Do I have to change a setting for each of the
geometries?

 

[evgeniy]

Hi,
it is possibile that Visio automatically sett NoFill for one of the two geometry sections to True
so if it the case you need to check this up and make chanegs that NoFill cells in both geomtry sections
have 0=False value

hope it will help

 

[K. Kazinski]

John - I was expecting a donut. I want to be able to fill the section independently of each other.

Evgeniy - Both the geometries were set to false. I changed both to true, when I do a fill only geometry1 gets filled. This is also the outside geometry.

Can I use
Shape.CellsU("GeometryX1.FillForegnd").FormulaU = strColor
Shape.CellsU("GeometryX2.FillForegnd").FormulaU = strColor

to set the colors?

Thanks,

Ken

 

[evgeniy]

Hi, Ken

now I can understand your intentions
I thought that you wanted to have the whole in your doughnut
but it turned out that you want to have central geometry also visible and with different color
This can be done by grouping two shapes together only
As I can understand you already had done this.
1) you place them as you want, then select both of them and then group them
Actually there must be a third shape now which forms group
2) you can edit group in group editor look in view men
3) you can subselect ech shape (outer and inner) to set their fill colo

So if you want to use the shapes as the one (not allow suselections) you must change selection mode for the group shape to select GroupOnly

Evgeni

Evgeniy

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

If you want to have two different fills, you need to have two seperate
shapes. When you group the shapes as opposed to any of the actions under the
Operations menu, you will end up with what appears to be a single shape.

Another point, the fill is only applied to closed shapes (end meets the
start). Is it possible that your original geometry sections were not closed?

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Hi Evgeniy,

I am running in developer mode. I am using Visio 2003.

My goal is to be able to fill the center section and outer section

seperately from each other. I have tried various combinations of
Geometry1.NoFill. When I set NoFill to false, I then fill the shape. I
then set NoFill to true and the color I selected is removed.

Here is my next tact. I made two shapes the inner and outer shapes. I

opened the outer shape in edit mode. I placed the inner shape on the outer
shape. I selected Group. Based on the help I am supposed to be able to
access each shape independently. How do I do this?

 

[K. Kazinski]

Hi John

My shapes are closed. The last lineto is to the X1 and Y1 points

Ke

 

[K. Kazinski]

Evgeniy
RE:>
1) you place them as you want, then select both of them and then group them
Actually there must be a third shape now which forms group
2) you can edit group in group editor look in view men
3) you can subselect ech shape (outer and inner) to set their fill colo

I created a new master, then dropped the inner and outer shape on the master page. Next I grouped them. I can not find a group editor in the view menu. (Visio 2003)

Do I need to set the group properities a certain way? Currently I have the select mode set to 1 and the display mode set to 2. These were the defaults

Thanks

Ke

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

It should be the last item on the menu, "Open Group", but it may have the
name of the object "Open MyShape".

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Evgeniy,
RE:>>
1) you place them as you want, then select both of them and then group them.
Actually there must be a third shape now which forms group.
2) you can edit group in group editor look in view menu
3) you can subselect ech shape (outer and inner) to set their fill color

I created a new master, then dropped the inner and outer shape on the

master page. Next I grouped them. I can not find a group editor in the
view menu. (Visio 2003).

Do I need to set the group properities a certain way? Currently I have

the select mode set to 1 and the display mode set to 2. These were the
defaults.

 

[K. Kazinski]

Hi Guys,

I still do not know how to access each of the shapes individually. Any help would be appreciated.

Ken

----- evgeniy wrote: -----

Hi, Ken,

now I can understand your intentions,
I thought that you wanted to have the whole in your doughnut,
but it turned out that you want to have central geometry also visible and with different color.
This can be done by grouping two shapes together only!
As I can understand you already had done this.
1) you place them as you want, then select both of them and then group them.
Actually there must be a third shape now which forms group.
2) you can edit group in group editor look in view menu
3) you can subselect ech shape (outer and inner) to set their fill color

So if you want to use the shapes as the one (not allow suselections) you must change selection mode for the group shape to select GroupOnly.

Evgeniy

Evgeniy