Some questions about the Cisco stencils for Visio

[Joel Page]

A question for those wanting the "abstract" versions:

- How would you like them to be labeled? Via a text object grouped,  
offset text in the shape, or in a note?

Joel

On Jan 26, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Abid Khwaja wrote:

> 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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