These tablet devices should all be evenly aligned and spaced on the page. If your shapes are not aligned, it can make even the most organized chart or diagram look bad. In this section, we're going to learn more of those methods. Go to the page for which you want to change the scale. In that instance, we made the change before we started to create the diagram. However, there may be times when you need to change the drawing scale after you've created the drawing. When we created the rack diagram, we changed the ratio between the drawings and the real equipment. We changed it to 1:10. For example, you might have a drawing scale that's 1':1'. This means that one inch of drawing space equals one foot of actual space. When we create a drawing in Visio, whether it's a rack with equipment or a floor plan for an office, we want to make sure that the shapes we add to our drawing represent actual objects AND accurately represent the amount of space they will inhabit. It goes without saying that it would be impossible to draw the actual size of an equipment rack on a page. However, that doesn't mean we don't want actual size representations on the page. This is an important part of creating a rack diagram because it lets you know where all your equipment is located. They were happy and we moved on.You can now go through and add shape data to the shapes in your drawing. Incredibly fed up with the whole situation and all their stupid demands, I opened MSPaint, made 3 gray rectangles, labelled them 'racks with closed doors,' and sent it back. The next day I get another reply that that won't work either because we need to have the rack doors closed on our equipment there. I updated the Visio with an open door on each rack. Stupid me, I forgot to show an open door on each rack.

I sent it in, and got a reply the next day saying that we were required to have doors on our racks. I made a diagram of the front of the racks, the back of the racks, and all of the cabling with everything labeled nicely. I figured it would be useful to have that anyways, so I downloaded stencils for all the equipment we were putting in. Then they wanted a Visio of the layout for the racks. After settling all of the power requirements and weight of the equipment, they wanted odd things like the dimensions of each server in the racks.

I've never dealt with more random and useless requirements in my life.

We were in the process of renting space in a Level3 colo.

Visio 24u rack stencil