Bulacan State University

College of Engineering

Exercise No. 1:
Interacting with Visio
COMP 311L: ECECAD

Name: _________________________________ ECE 3___

Date: ___________________
Objectives:
In this exercise you will learn to:
1. Familiarize with Visio Windows
2. How to use Visios menus
3. How to use the Standard toolbar
4. How to use the Formatting toolbar
5. How to hide or display toolbars.

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What is Microsoft Visio?

A drawing program; a drawing program with advanced functions and features that allow
you to create professional looking diagrams and charts.
Helps to more easily convey information to an audience
Useful when used with a PowerPoint presentation or when submitting a Word document
1. To begin, start Visio 2007. You can use either the desktop Icon or the Windows Start menu.
Where did you find the Visio 2007, is it in the desktop Icon or in the Windows Start Menu?
___________________________________

2. When your Visio screen opens, click the small close button (indicated in the following image).
What happen? ___________________________________________________________

3. Let your mouse pointer pause over some of the buttons on the toolbars near the top of the screen.
4.

What did you see? ________________________________________________________________

Next, place your mouse pointer over the vertical series of buttons on the left of one of the toolbars.

What happen to your mouse pointer? _________________________________

Hold your left mouse button and drag the toolbar down into the center area of the Visio screen.

5. Next, click on the File menu, and examine the options that appear.

You will notice that some options have three dots following them (like the Open option), while other
options have a right pointing arrow (like the Shapes option).
What do the three dots () indicate? _________________________________
What does an arrow indicate? _______________________________________

6. Click the Open option on the file menu to see the Open dialogue.
What happen? _____________________________________________
Close the Open dialogue box with the close button (X) in the upper right.

7. Next, drag the toolbar the way you move the toolbar in step 4 over to the left side of the Visio screen.

What happen? ________________________________________________

8. Place your mouse pointer on the lower right corner of the Visio screen. When your mouse pointer turns
into a double headed arrow, use your mouse to drag the corner of the screen inward toward the center.
What happen? _________________________________________________________________

9. Click the Maximize button in the upper right to make the Visio window large again.
10. Click the View menu, followed by the Task Pane option.
What happen? __________________________________________________________________

11. Click the close (X) button in the upper right of the task pane to close it.

12. Click the close button in the upper right of the Visio screen to close Visio 2007.

SkillSharpener1.1
1. On which menu will you find a Shapes option?
2. On which menu will you find a Grouping Option?

_______________________________
_______________________________

3. What commands are associated with the following buttons:

_______________________________
4. How can you display additional toolbars?
_______________________________
5. What is the keyboard shortcut for the Open dialog?
_______________________________
6. What is the name of this (

) button?

_______________________________

Bulacan State University

College of Engineering

Exercise No. 2:
Familiarization with
Visio Templates,
Stencils and Shapes
COMP 311L: ECECAD

Name: _________________________________ ECE 3___

Date: ___________________
Objectives:
In this exercise you will learn to:
1. Identify different Templates of Visio
2. Identify the Stencils for a given Template
3. Identify the Shapes for a given Stencil

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Templates, Stencils, and Shapes

A Visio Shape is a basic geometrical object or building block of a Visio diagram. Most people
that use Visio take advantage of the shapes that come with the program. But; if you need a
special custom shape, you can create your own from scratch.
Basically, a Stencil is a collection of Shape objects, backgrounds, or other drawing patterns.
Related shapes are grouped in a Stencil based on the types of charts and diagrams that the
shapes will be used to create.
For example, in the following shapes pane you can see a list of Stencils, and a list of shapes
associated with the selected (highlighted) stencil.
A Visio Template is a collection of stencils that are related to a given category, like business,
flowcharts, engineering, and so on.
1. Start Visio 2007.
2. Write below the Content of Template Categories Below.
a. _____________________________

f. _________________________________

b. _____________________________

g. _________________________________

c. _____________________________

h. _________________________________

d. _____________________________

i. _________________________________

e. _____________________________

j. _________________________________

3. Choose the one category and write below the content of the template in this category
below.
Template Name: __________________________________________
a. _____________________________

f. _________________________________

b. _____________________________

g. _________________________________

c. _____________________________

h. _________________________________

d. _____________________________

i. _________________________________

e. _____________________________

j. _________________________________

4. From Engineering Category, choose Basic Electrical Template. On the right side you
will see the description of the given Template. Write below the description of Basic
Electrical Template.
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

5. Click Create, and a window will appear. At the right side you will see the stencils for a
given template. Write below the Stencils Name for the Basic Electrical.
a. _____________________________

d. _________________________________

b. _____________________________

e. _________________________________

c. _____________________________
6. Choose Semiconductors and Electron Tubes stencil; write below the entire Shapes name
for Electron Tubes stencil.
a. _____________________________

d. _________________________________

b. _____________________________

e. _________________________________

c. _____________________________

f. _________________________________

g. _____________________________

r._________________________________

h. _____________________________

s. _________________________________

i. _____________________________

t. _________________________________

j. _____________________________

u. _________________________________

k. _____________________________

v. _________________________________

l. _____________________________

w. _________________________________

m. _____________________________

x._________________________________

n. _____________________________

y. _________________________________

o _____________________________

z. _________________________________

p _____________________________

aa. _________________________________

q. _____________________________
7. Move the cursor to Bipolar shape, a screen tip will appear. Write the tip shown below.
______________________________________________________________________
8. Follow the screen tip instruction and see what happen.