microsoft visio stencils network diagram

This means that printing from a A3 drawing to an A4 page scales correctly.Īs far as I can tell, American paper sizes are based on some random sizing system and scaling may need some consideration. That is, an A2 is twice the size of an A3 page which is twice the size of an A4 page and so on. The ISO metric paper sizes are direct multiples when scaling. While someone might know how to use the scale functions, I don’t and never needed them. For example, if you drawing size is 10cm x 10cm and Visio tries to scale that up to 21cm x 29.7cm, then the horizontal is going scale 1:2.1, and the vertical will scale 1:2.9 thus stretching the image. When Visio tries to scale the page to your print paper, it will distort the image. Some DONT’s Don’t fit to drawing contentsĭon’t set the Page Size to “Size to fit drawing contents”. On the other hand, if you have an A0 plotter handy then nothing, and I mean nothing, has more impact in a management meeting than an A0 diagram spread across the boardroom table with some felt tip pens drawing the connectivity from end to end and explaining why your project will take thirty days to deliver and its ‘not just a few firewall rules’ that could be done by next week. It gets a bit small, but frankly, you shouldn’t be printing this out anyway. Printing just uses up valuable resources that very few people even look at so why bother ?įor large and detailed diagrams, I will often use A0 or A1 Page Size and then print to A3.

This is because I spend most of my time looking at the drawings on screen. Most of my drawings are done on A3 Page Size, and then printed on A4 paper. In my opinion, this is correct behaviour Some Recommendations perhaps Because every drawing might be a different page size, and a different page print property, each drawing has to be changed manually. Some people have the idea that changing the print setup once work for every drawing page like say Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. This is because the print configuration is stored for each page in your Visio document.

If you later decide that you want to print to A3 for every page in your document, you will need to change the Print Setup for every page.

Microsoft visio stencils network diagram