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Drawing RSS icons in Visio – Part 2

In Part 1 of this post I looked at how to draw a 2D RSS icon shape for Visio using it as an example of how to use operations that manipulate a shape’s underlying geometry.  In this post I’m going to move on to a 3D version and whilst I’m going to use some similar techniques the focus, this time, is going to be on breaking down a complex shape based on colour…

Drawing RSS icons in Visio – Part 1

I was looking at an RSS icon the other day and thought it would make a good example of how to draw custom shapes in Visio.  You can, of course, use bitmap based images and save yourself all of the drawing, but if you want to include any interaction within the shape and if you want it to scale without degrading then the vector route is the one to choose. 

I’ll split this into two posts:- in the first I’ll look at a 2D icon and use the shape operations functionality and in the second, I look at a 3D icon and try and break down the shape in terms of its colours…