A rack diagram helps make quick work of designing and documenting a rack of network equipment. When purchasing equipment, rack diagrams can help you determine which equipment and racks to buy. With Microsoft Visio, you can quickly build a rack diagram from equipment shapes that conform to industry-standard measurements.
Visio Professional 2019 Visio Professional 2016 Visio 2007 Visio Online Plan 2A rack diagram helps make quick work of designing and documenting a rack of network equipment. When purchasing equipment, rack diagrams can help you determine which equipment and racks to buy.With Microsoft Visio, you can quickly build a rack diagram from equipment shapes that conform to industry-standard measurements. The shapes are designed to fit together precisely, and their connection points make them easy to snap into place.You can also store data such as serial number and location with the equipment shapes and generate detailed reports based on that data.
What do you want to do?Create a rack diagram.On the File menu, point to New, point to Network, and then click Rack Diagram.From Rack-mounted Equipment, drag a Rack shape onto the drawing page. To hide the U height, right-click the shape and then click Hide U sizes on the shortcut menu.Find an equipment shape that you want to add to your drawing, and drag it onto the Rack shape.Connection points at the lower corners of the equipment shape are glued to the connection points on the Rack shape. When the equipment shape is correctly connected to the Rack shape, the connection points turn to a different color, indicating that they are glued.
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Visio Stencils Dynamic Drawing TemplatesCommScope has developed an easy-to-use method to create detailed Visio drawings, using a dynamic drawing template. The CommScope drawing template offers many advantages:. All CommScope stencils are preloaded for immediate use.
Software is built-in to alert the user to any new or missing shapes and stencils. An automatic BOM report that is exportable to Excel. Drawing scale is pre-set to insure compatibility with shapes from other manufacturers. Drawing layer is pre-set to allow visibility of doors or bezels to be toggled on and off. Title block data is semi-automatically filled in. Shapes may be searched for with a partial Product Code (e.g. 360G2-1U.)Shapes snap into place in an intelligent manner (e.g.
Panels snap to a discrete rack āUā increment) and many shapes are now re-configurable, making changes quick and easy. For instance, an information outlet is a single shape in a stencil (e.g. MGS-500-XXX) but with a simple right mouse button click, it may be changed to any one of the 13 colors that are offered. Changing the color displayed on the drawing will also change the respective data in the BOM automatically.Get StartedPlease read through the before proceeding. After downloading the stencils, please review the included instructions to get the most out of your Visio experience.