Subtitles of the Movie

You may be asked by your boss to construct a simple directional map to put on maybe a piece of company marketing material to help customers to find your shop. Or in a home environment perhaps you're throwing an anniversary bash or birthday bash and you want to publish a flyer that contains a simple directional map that provides directions to your home. Visio can accomplish these kinds of goals. Again Visio in one since tries to be a Swiss army knife and tackle all of your drawing needs, quite frankly if you really need to do some detail mapping you'll want a dedicated application for that task. That having been said we can construct some really nice 2-D and 3-d maps directly from within Visio 2007. And that's exactly what we're going to do right now, now we'll open the file menu from within Visio, go to new and if we want to do this from the getting started pane we can simple click getting started. But in this case we're going to go a slightly different route and we'll navigate down to maps and floor plans and we can choose what we want. And at the very top of that sub menu we have directional map and directional map 3-D. The directional map is what we're going to start with and this is a 2-d or 2 dimensional map type. Now by default there is no drawing scale implied here and that's fine, its up to you whether or not you want to use a drawing scale, you know by now how to change that if you need. So what we should do is take a closer look at the stencils and the shapes that we have available to us. Now notice that we have road, its kind of like a tinker toy set or a Lego set if you grew up playing with those toys like I did then you'll probably have a good time constructing a map here in Visio because its like playing with those modular tools. We can bring out say a curve, shape, and a road square shape and then just begin to go to town basically. So, let me see how can we do this? Why don't we, I'm just working from my imagination here, but I'm just linking up shapes however I want to. now how would you recommend we take this arc here and make a arc in the other direction, what do you think? Well I want to show you this, this is pretty cool, I don't remember if I've shown you yet in this series how to do this but to flip shapes is a really important skill to have. So what we can do is have this shape selected, open the shape menu and come down to rotate or flip and notice that we can rotate the shape on a 90 degree basis or we can just go ahead and flip. That's pretty cool isn't. So let's drag this guy down to here and why don't we duplicate this guy, I'll hold down control, bring it up like that and let's finish by bringing out one more road piece, make it smaller, and notice that we can just, actually come to a resize handle and spin that guy around like that and slam dunk him just like this. Not too bad huh? This piece here I don't really like, so I'm going to drag that away and then press delete to get rid of it, but I do like this curve, so why don't we use our control key again to click, hold and drag, let go of the mouse first to duplicate him and now lets rotate, or actually let's flip this guy vertically, we'll open the shape menu, come down to rotate or flip and then select flip vertical. Sweet. Now we can make that curve nice and gentle. Finally let's bring out one more curve and that will be the end of our basic road structure. Again this is what I mean t when I said that this is fun, I'm going to save this document before going any further, we'll call this one VTC directional map and I will see you in the next movie.