I downloaded Visio to draw out some of my wiring projects to make it easier to remember what I did and diagnose in the future. I assumed that there were some available libraries of stencils for home electrical components, but I have been disappointed to see I was wrong. However, watching your videos I can see you have made an incredible library of these components. Can you reconsider making your stencils available? They would be incredibly useful and I’m sure people would even be willing to pay for them. You include a guide on how to make them, but the amount of work required to recreate what you have done would be immense.
How do you expect your audience to follow you without the library you have ? Put it behind a paywall if you have to. Whatever it takes. I need this library !
It's a solid library, and years worth of work for me. Unfortunately I have no plans of distributing it though. But, with only a few hours watching and working on this series, you could have a very solid understanding of the how to draw quickly and easily with Visio and be well on your way to developing your own.
You rock and totally helped me start making awesom schematics for marine electronics. I will email you some soon, but I have an issue. When you make a shape that will be resized how do you get text to stay with the correct size ratio. for example your GFCI says "test" and "reset" I am laying out fuse blocks with the circuits labeled and sometimes i dont get the size correct. When I go to resize the text does not change. I have looked at a few ways but they were pretty in depth. I was hoping you had an easy solution.
Glad to hear you're up and running with this! Test sizing as a part of as grouped shape is a locked attribute. Which means it will not scale when you adjust those parts, and this is the reason why I usually try to draw my templates close to my final working size. You can always select the template and just adjust the text size in the toolbar, but it will apply to all lettering in the shape. There are only 2x ways to get around this, and neither is elegant. One would be to create each letter as a lineshape and stack them in manually using alignment and spacing options. Then they would scale. But that takes forever for layout and kerning. The other option is to use the windows snipping tool and select the written text as shape, save as a jpg, and paste that back. But it will granulate as you change the scaling. I wish there was a fast answer, but Text will always be the bane of this software. My best advice is to try to do your original templating as close to the final desired shape as possible.
@@joelteacheselectrical OK it seems like thats what I was coming up with too a few answers I found were about coding and stuff but thats over my head. I understand what you are saying about getting it close to actual size. I think I need to Change my process and do the text as the final step of the process. THANKS AGAIN YOU ROCK
Hi, I don't actually sell any of my files. This video series will teach you how to make your own though. It's a worthwhile endeavor if you need them for illustrations or for teaching like I do.
I downloaded Visio to draw out some of my wiring projects to make it easier to remember what I did and diagnose in the future. I assumed that there were some available libraries of stencils for home electrical components, but I have been disappointed to see I was wrong.
However, watching your videos I can see you have made an incredible library of these components.
Can you reconsider making your stencils available? They would be incredibly useful and I’m sure people would even be willing to pay for them. You include a guide on how to make them, but the amount of work required to recreate what you have done would be immense.
Was looking for vsio resources and you taught my FSR class. Thanks for continuing to teach me.
glad I found your channel... I am an Electrical Inspector and consultant myself and I found a lot of value in your videos.. Liked and subbed.
Your videos are so instructional and amazing !!!!
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wow, learning quality video stuffs from Nepal, thank you joel sir
Glad to hear it. Your Drone footage is so good on your channel!
@1:45 which option did you choose for this creation?
Great series! Have you looked into exporting a bill of materials from the final Visio document?
Incredible
How do you expect your audience to follow you without the library you have ?
Put it behind a paywall if you have to. Whatever it takes. I need this library !
It's a solid library, and years worth of work for me. Unfortunately I have no plans of distributing it though. But, with only a few hours watching and working on this series, you could have a very solid understanding of the how to draw quickly and easily with Visio and be well on your way to developing your own.
You rock and totally helped me start making awesom schematics for marine electronics. I will email you some soon, but I have an issue. When you make a shape that will be resized how do you get text to stay with the correct size ratio. for example your GFCI says "test" and "reset" I am laying out fuse blocks with the circuits labeled and sometimes i dont get the size correct. When I go to resize the text does not change. I have looked at a few ways but they were pretty in depth. I was hoping you had an easy solution.
Glad to hear you're up and running with this!
Test sizing as a part of as grouped shape is a locked attribute. Which means it will not scale when you adjust those parts, and this is the reason why I usually try to draw my templates close to my final working size. You can always select the template and just adjust the text size in the toolbar, but it will apply to all lettering in the shape.
There are only 2x ways to get around this, and neither is elegant. One would be to create each letter as a lineshape and stack them in manually using alignment and spacing options. Then they would scale. But that takes forever for layout and kerning. The other option is to use the windows snipping tool and select the written text as shape, save as a jpg, and paste that back. But it will granulate as you change the scaling.
I wish there was a fast answer, but Text will always be the bane of this software. My best advice is to try to do your original templating as close to the final desired shape as possible.
@@joelteacheselectrical OK it seems like thats what I was coming up with too a few answers I found were about coding and stuff but thats over my head. I understand what you are saying about getting it close to actual size. I think I need to Change my process and do the text as the final step of the process. THANKS AGAIN YOU ROCK
please give us link to download your Electrical Figures
I don't share all my shapes, but if you watch this video series, you learn how to draw your own or better ones!
@@joelteacheselectrical ok. You have a good channel.
How do I get some of the library files? Do you sell them if not sharable?
Hi, I don't actually sell any of my files. This video series will teach you how to make your own though. It's a worthwhile endeavor if you need them for illustrations or for teaching like I do.
Great movie
Thanks! Hopefully it helps set you up to learn Visio!