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Since the Visio stencil has gone through numerous revision this year (all of which are fantastic improvements--kudos to Andy Carver), this leaves me with numerous diagrams that are based on previous versions of shapes and contained in files which do not have all the macros. Is it possible to "upgrade" an existing Visio file to use the ...

Thanks! I'll grab that version in just a minute :)

Believe it or not, I was not the first one to down load it. I have been working on other projects and have not yet taken the time to install it--but it looks like fate smiled upon me :)

No problem. I am blatantly selfish in my desire for the changes :) But I am also sincerely grateful that you took the time to make them.

I am on Visio 2010, so no problems with the bug in v2002. The shapes work really well. I like that the menus change depending on the orientation. Having used it now, it was a little obscure to have to select the role in order to see the menus to add and remove Roles, but I can't think of any way to make that work more intuitively. Once I ...

I finally took some time to try these out. The functionality to add or remove Roles from a Fact Type is very nice. I like it. Definitely the direction I was thinking. Here are some things that struck me while I was trying out these two files. The pop-up message is really annoying. I am glad you took it out in the second version :-) On ...

The new stencil works extremely well. I'll start using this version right away. I did note one thing about my previous comment that I think was too ambitious at the moment. The way the n-ary Fact Type shape works today, there are dozens of connection points that hang around even when the Fact Type is configured to have a small number of ...

Wow! A direct hit! That works really well! I tried all the things I could think of off the top of my head, and it worked perfectly. I think this would be an enormously useful addition to the stencil. In fact, it made me think that there only needs to be one Fact Type shape: an n-ary adjustable, rotatable, and objectifiable Fact ...

I had to chuckle while reading your experience--I guess this is why we pay Human Factors and User Experience folks so well. I am in agreement with you that the inconsistency of the interaction depending on click-drag or click, click-drag, while interesting, would be so obscure that it would cause more confusion than benefit. I am impressed ...

Wow! That is quite amazing. Intentional or not, I found that click-dragging a shape will never include the neighboring constraints, but click then click-drag will. This gives me the option, with a little practice, to decide if I want to move just the shape I clicked, or the shape and its attached constraints. I'd have to play with it a ...