Network Diagrams: Rotating Text on a Line

You want to put text on a line, but it’s the wrong dir­ec­tion or along the line. Here’s how to get that right.

Network Diagrams: Tips for Printing From Visio

It seems that print­ing from Visio is not par­tic­u­larly obvi­ous. So this post cov­ers how I would print doc­u­ments from A4 to A0 paper sizes and some tips on get­ting good results.

Network Diagrams:Zones on a Diagram With Visio Shape Union

The post looks at using the Union of shapes in Visio to cre­ate unusal shaped objects. Especially use­ful when try­ing to draw zones to show the DMZ in dual layer fire­wall cluster.

Network Diagrams: Drawing Complex VLAN Networks With IP Addressing

Following my pre­vi­ous art­icles, lets go a little deeper in labelling the VLAN cre­ated and ways to handle mul­tiple VLANs on a diagram.

Network Diagrams: Drawing Freehand Curves (and Then Fixing Them)

Continuing on with absurdly pop­u­lar posts about mak­ing dia­grams in Visio. Lets draw a line in free­hand. It will be broken, because we aren’t artists so lets talk about how to fix it.

Network Diagrams:Aligning Shapes

In this post we are look­ing at align­ing shapes in straight lines which will enhance your presentation.

Network Diagrams:Locking the Background Shape

Once you are using back­ground shapes, you find that they keep on get­ting in the way. This post looks at how to lock the shape so you dia­gram over the top of it.

Network Diagrams: Labelling an VLAN/​IP Segment

Lets build the Layer 3 seg­ment from yesterday’s post into some­thing you can use in a detailed design.

Network Diagrams: VLANs and IP Subnets

One of the most com­mon items that we need to draw are VLANs and Layer 3 seg­ment. Lets look at one way to cre­ate a use­ful shape.

Network Diagrams: Drawing the Background Shape

This post looks at how to draw the back­ground shape and shap­ing fol­low­ing my pre­vi­ous posts on draw­ing net­work diagrams.