Paul Herber Software

66 Block and 110 Block stencil for Visio

A stencil containing 66 Block and 110 Block shapes. These are punchdown blocks (a type of connector) used for telecomms and network wiring. The blocks are used for terminating up to 25 or 50) solid copper wires. On these shapes each pin has a connection point for attaching standard Visio connectors.

Universal chemical formula shape for Visio

A stencil containing a Universal chemical formula shape. When creating chemical formulae there can be a lot of formatting with subscripts, use this shape though and make it easy. Drag the shape onto your drawing, don't edit the shape's text directly, but edit the shape's Custom Properties (Shape Data), enetering the letters and numbers into the shape's data fields. Whether it's a simple or the more complex ethyl ethanoate or butan-1-ol

Circuit board shapes stencil for Visio

A stencil containing 3D circuit board shapes. These shapes used to be in our Electronics for Visio shapes but are now made available for free.

Shapes document for creating control systems diagrams in Visio

A document for creating control systems diagrams.

Electronics breadboards shapes stencil for Visio

A stencil containing 2 electronics breadboard shapes with the standard 0.1" spacing.
Extract the stencil from the zip file and put in the "My Documents\My Shapes" folder.

Fire Diamond shape stencil for Visio

A stencil containing a Fire Diamond shape.

Grafcet (Sequential Function Charts) diagram shapes stencil and template for Visio

Grafcet diagrams (or Sequential Function Charts) are used to illustrate and specify the operation of reactive systems.

These stencils (both metric and US units) contain shapes and symbols for creating Grafcet diagrams very quickly within Microsoft Visio.
All the shapes glue together nicely, Transition and Action shapes should be dropped in the middle of the flow line, Branch Start and Branch End shapes have connection points set up for up to four branches, if more branches are needed then you can just add a new Branch symbol alongside.

Example Diagram

A very simple example diagram.

This software works with:

• Microsoft Visio 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016 (any version, Standard, Professional or Premium) and Visio for Office 365.
• ConceptDraw Pro on Mac OSX and Windows.
• Omnigraffle Pro on the Mac and iPad.

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MASCOT shapes stencil for Visio

A stencil containing MASCOT shapes.
MASCOT was a software design methodology developed by the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern, Worcestershire, UK from the 1970s and 1980s.

Multi-tree Connector

A document containing a grouped connector similar to the multi-tree square connector, but allowing individual line ends and other line settings to be made.

Occam shapes stencil and template for Visio

A stencil that can be used to create drawings as per the example below. The template provides a blank drawing canvas and defines the way connections flow on a drawing. All the symbols have connection points at suitable locations.

Shapes template for creating PEST-SWOT diagrams in Visio

Three templates for creating PEST (and PESTEL/PESTLE) and SWOT diagrams for business and marketing analysis.
(PEST = Political, Economic, Social, Technological)
(SWOT = Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats).
This has now been updated to include a PESTEL (or PESTLE) template (E = Environmental, L = Legal)

Plastics recycling shapes stencil for Visio

A stencil of shapes for plastics recycling.

Protocol Stack shapes stencil and template for Visio

A stencil that can be used to create protocol stack layer and message drawings as per the example below. The template provides a blank drawing canvas and defines the way connections flow on a drawing.
All the symbols have connection points at suitable locations.

Resource Allocation Graph shapes

Some time ago a user asked about how to get hold of shapes to do Resource Allocation Graphs, here are some shapes you can use to create diagrams of this type.

Syntax diagram shapes for Visio

Syntax diagrams (also called railroad diagrams) can be used to illustrate the grammar of a computer language as per the example below. The diagram contains all the shapes, just copy and paste to create your own. All the symbols have connection points at suitable locations.

Warning signs shape stencil for Visio

A stencil containing warning sign shapes.