jme-elzinga / visiostencils

My 3,100 visio :art: shapes, stencils, symbols, and icons collection to visually represent IT infrastructure

This repository consolidate more than 3,100 Microsoft Visio artefacts that I have collected and used over the years. Your stencils and templates library does not have to be unique, everyone strives for consistency. Fork this repository and improve your library. Even better, send me an update :)

Drawing scale should be set to 1”=10” which is the de facto industry standard for network VISIO shapes.

There is 600 current IT stencils, sadly most vendors does not update them frequently. You'll find items from Cisco, CommScope, Dell, D-Link, Extreme Network, Fortinet, HPE, Juniper, Kubernetes, Lenovo, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Penguin, Qumulo, Sitecore, Sophos, Synology, TP-Link, Unquiti, , Veeam, VMWare, and ZScaler. There is also cloud related stencils from Alibaba, Azure, and IBM. I'm still looking for AWS and GCP.

Computer rack stencils include CyberPower, Datwylerm, Eaton, HellermannTyton, GarlandTech, Panduit, R&M, Raritan, Systimax, Tripp Lite and Uniprise.

This repository also include more than 1100 IT stencils older than 2019 because I have them and organizations are still using them. You'll find items from 3Com, Adtran, Avaya, Avocent, BlueCat, BlueSocket, Chatsworth, Dell, Extreme Network, F5, Foundry, IronPort, Juniper, Linksys, Netgate PFSense, Nortel, Palo Alto Network, Polycom, QNAP, Radware, Riverbed Network, SonicWall, Sourcefire, TippingPoint, Vyatta, and ZyXel.

IT Methodologies stencils include ADAPT v3, Archimate, BPMN, C4, CORAS, CMMN, DMN, IDEF5, TOGAF and UML.

Obviously, I don't remember all the sources – refer to Stencils for more information.

If you don't find something, try third party commercial shape vendors such as 3DN, NetZoom, Shape Source, Visimation, or Visio Café.

Installation procedure

1. Close Microsoft Visio
2. Clone or download the repository
3. Copy all the stencils (e.g., .vss and .vssx) to C:\Users<Username>\Documents\My Shapes
4. Microsoft Visio will recognize all stencil files in the My Shapes folder

You can do the same thing for templates (e.g., .vst, .vstm and .vstx) and the documents (e.g., .vsd, and .vsdx)

In doubt refer to this Microsoft instruction.

visioStencils by Benoît H. Dicaire is shared with an unlicense.

For more information, please refer to https://unlicense.org

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