Some questions about the Cisco stencils for Visio

[Abid Khwaja]

Both actually.  We use the abstract ones to create and document the  
overall network or network segments and the detailed hardware ones for  
the documentation of specific device hardware configurations.  This is  
not limited to Cisco gear - we use detailed IBM hardware stencils to  
document server hardware configurations.  I would love to drop the use  
of Visio for all this work.


On Jan 25, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Joel Page wrote:

> (I've cross posted this to the OmniGraffle Extras forum as well,  
> just as an FYI)
>
> As we work more at bettering our Visio support, one singular fact  
> has presented itself: Lots of people really really need to make use  
> of the rather large library of Cisco stencils that are already  
> available for Visio.
>
> One of the problems that presents itself here in regard to that is  
> that the large majority of those stencils are making use of the  
> Enhanced MetaFile format (EMF), which OmniGraffle Professional  
> currently does not parse. We are currently discussing talking to the  
> folks who wrote the Visio binary file format parser for us to tackle  
> this issue, in the meantime I am considering undertaking the task of  
> creating these Cisco stencils for OmniGraffle (more or less from  
> scratch), however I do have some questions...
>
> I have seen a number of existing Cisco stencils for OmniGraffle that  
> are fairly abstract, as shown here:
>
> <http://people.omnigroup.com/jpage/stuff/Cisco-basic.png>
>
> I also notice that the actual Cisco stencils in Visio are far more  
> complex and detailed such as:
>
> <http://people.omnigroup.com/jpage/stuff/Access_Server-AS5400.png>
>
> So, the question is: Which of these styles are needed by the Graffle  
> community most?
>
> My guess is that it's the latter, but before I start working on my  
> gameplan here I need to know what direction I'm heading in.
>
> Please let me know here or over in the forum thread, and thanks!
>
>
> Joel Page
> Product Manager, OmniGraffle
> The Omni Group
>
>
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