Hard drive platter shapes

[ryanlsanders]

Microsoft has displayed these shapes on their documents, under what
stencil can I find them? Are they included with base Visio 2003. I
would really like to be able to reproduce these diagrams.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...94d-5266-4852-9a15-662106a9b19f.mspx?mfr=true

See the second image that internalizes the server.

Thanks!

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi Ryan,

Here's a couple of ideas:

1. Try your handy-dandy office clip-art. In Visio, Insert > Picture >
Clip-art... You might find some nifty artwork in there. Visio supports
metafiles and bitmaps, so you can import foreign art.

2. Mai-lan (an ex-Visio team member) had a post on her blog that deals with
the style of pictures you're looking for:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mailant/archive/2005/01/07/348911.aspx
There's even a link to a .vsd at the bottom of the post, but id doesn't have
your disk shape.


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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
Other Visio resources:
http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Found part 1 and 2 of that series from Mai-lan's blog...i.e. MORE SHAPES!

http://blogs.msdn.com/mailant/archive/2004/12/05/275239.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/mailant/archive/2004/11/21/267773.aspx

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
Other Visio resources:
http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/