Yes, I know the sight you mentionned and I wasn't too thrilled about their offerings either. The little I saw led me to believe that they had just converted older CAD drawings to visio shapes and generated Shape Sheets with them. The angles were all wrong, in that there is no way to get them to connect to one another and create a meanigful process diagram.
There are a lot sites out there with Free shapes. What you might not get however are Free Programmatically enhanced shapes. Those are closely guarded by their authors, and they can make good money depending on how good they are.
Visio Shapes Sampler is a free Microsoft Visio stencil containing 30 assorted symbols from Visimation's ShapeSuite for Manufacturing and Industry. Visio 2013 - Kitchen Design Templates Specifically upgraded to 2013 from 2002 just to get the great kitchen templates I saw somewhere. But when I open the floor plan templates for Bathroom/Kitchen, all I get are bathroom elements, and none of the predesigned templates I saw, (I think it was 2003). The Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics shapes have been designed to take the tedium out of creating commonly used visual notations such as molecules, mathematical functions, and circuit diagrams. These shapes can be downloaded for use with your existing copy of Microsoft Office Visio 2007. Visio shapes for diagramming Buildings. Modular office 1. Modular office 2. Browse our eCommerce website for both free and paid stencils for Microsoft Visio. Jan 18, 2010 Download Software and Database Shapes for Microsoft Visio from Official Microsoft Download Center. Experience the best of Office with the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more. Software and Database Shapes for Microsoft Visio Important! Mobileex smart card driver. Selecting a language below will dynamically change the complete page.
Here is a list of sites that I borrowed from this site: http://www.sandrila.co.uk/articles/visio-articles/
It seems to me that you should be able to find some decent stuff in this list, and little by little you miught get the hang of generating your own shapes (and who knows, maybe you'll sell them some day.
Links to all the Visio articles
Free Shapes Fire diamond shape Universal chemical formula shape 66 and 110 Block shapes Circuit board shapes Resource allocation graph shapes Occam shapes Output dialog box for showing text when a shape is double-clicked Protocol stack shapes PEST/PESTEL/SWOT shapes Plastics recycling shapes Syntax diagrams Warning signs How-tos Adding a preview to your template Commentaries Flowchart shapes Visio slowdown graph
Various useful formulae for use in Visio shapesheet cells
Resizing text with the shape: Set cell Character -> Size = 10 pt*Height/0.75 in
Resizing text with the shape (with minimum and maximum values): Set cell Character -> Size = Min(48 pt, Max(4 pt,10 pt*Height/0.75 in.))
Level text - text that is always horizontal, sometimes called 'gravity text': Set cell Text Transform -> TxtAngle = -ANG360(Angle)
3rd-party additions for Microsoft Visio
There are various lists available of 3rd-party Visio stencils and add-ons, all of which seem to be totally out of date and full of dead links. I shall endeavour to keep this list up to date, please inform me of any changes or additions. Email me
Aviation
Aresti System Aerobatic Drawing Software contains all the figures from the Aresti System (Condensed) Aerobatic Catalogue, Templates for all IAC & CIVA aerobatic Forms, and many automated sub-routines for rapid paperwork preparation - commercial
Business
Bow tie diagram shapes - stencils and templates for Bow Tie diagram risk analysis by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
Business Process Modeler (BPMN) allows users to quickly and easily model and publish their business processes in industry-standard BPMN - free
Business Process Modeler (BPMN) by Workflow Research - free
CORAS Model-driven risk analysis - free
Enterprise Process Center ™ (EPC) Migrate your Visio maps to the EPC to manage the process lifecycle - commercial with free trial
IBM eBusiness Patterns - free
Pyramid shape for marketing from Visio Guy - free
Radial Sankey diagram shapes from Visio Guy - free
RISKIT method Management consultancy of some sort - the website is full of search engine friendly management consulancy phrases but tells you almost nothing about what it actually is. So, if you want to deploy your competencies and goals together with your customers' resources in an ongoing real-time interactive scenario then this might be for you.
Sankey diagram shapes from Visio Guy - free
Sankey diagram shpe another variant, from Visio Guy - free
Sticky note shape from Visio Guy - free
Storyboarding shape from Visio Guy - free
Value Stream Mapping - The eVSM software is the easiest way to visualize the value stream. - commercial with free trial
Chemistry
Periodic table from David Edson via Visio Guy - free
Universal chemical formula shape from Sandrila Ltd. - free
Computer games
Arcade Controls Visio stencils in Visio 4 format for arcade controls - joysticks, buttons, etc - warning: this website is really bad on the eyes - free
John C. Brown castle and cave shapes for dungeons and dragons - free
John C. Brown sci-fi spaceship deck design - free
Computer hardware
USB Stick from Visio Guy - free
Computer networks
A10 Networks shapes for their network equipment - free
Allied Telesis shapes for their network devices - free
Altima Tech sell NetZoom shapes - commercial
Apple iPad shape from Visio Guy - free
Avocent network devices shapes - free
Blue Coat network security and optimisation - free
Cisco network shapes - free
Citrix server shapes by Brian Madden - free
CTRLink their network hubs and switches shapes - free
Dell Dell's servers and rack systems - free
Hubbell network wiring shapes - free
IBM Thinkpad shape from Visio Guy - free
IMC Networks reate detailed and accurate network diagrams, network documentation, proposals and presentations - available upon request
Intel Modular server shapes - free
JDTools network shapes for various Sun and IBM items - free
Juniper Networks shapes for their network products - free
Kindle network shape from Visio Guy - free
Leviton loads of networking shapes - free
Microplex shapes for their products - free
MOSCAD Stencil set contains over 50 Motorola MOSCAD and MOSCAD-L objects - commercial - $249!!!!
MTMNet shapes for 3Com, Extreme, Cisco, Adtran, Foundry, Juniper Networks, Nortel and WatchGuard
Nexans network shapes - free
Netplex network planning shapes and templates - free
Nortel resource Nortel 198 shapes - free
Quantum networking shapes - free
Rack Unit dimension from Visio Guy - free
Reichle & De-Massari AG many network shapes - free
Tripplite rack systems, power supplies and KVM switches - free
University of Virginia - Multimedia Networks Group RouteConfig - a graphical tool for configuring networks of PC routers - free
VisioCafe Huge collection of networking shapes - free and commercial
Computer software
ADAPT™ (Application Design for Analytical Processing Technologies design methodology specifically created to represent the objects and operations found in OLAP databases- free
BizTalk Server stencil for BizTalk Server - free
Data flow diagrams software design - stencils, template and an addon by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
Gregor Hohpe a stencil for designing messaging software - free
Jackson structured design - stencils, template and an addon by Sandrila Ltd - free
Perceptory - spatial and spatiotemporal PVLs a tested, simple and efficient spatial database and spatiotemporal database visual modelling tool - free
SDL/MSC/TTCN/UML/URN software design - stencils, template and an addon by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free trial download
Sharepoint shapes Visio template and stencil for designing SharePoint sites - free
SysML stencils Pavel Hruby - free
VisioDAML VisioDAML is a Visio application to illustrate how Visio can be used to create graphical representations of DAML+OIL ontologies - free
UML stencils Allen Holub - free
UML stencils by Fundamental Modeling Concepts - free
UML stencils Ian Koenig - free
UML stencils Object Mentor - free
UML stencils Pavel Hruby - free
Electrical/Electronics engineering
Analog chips shapes - stencils and templates by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
Audio-visual shapes - stencils by Polycom - free
CMOS chips shapes - stencils and templates by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
DIP switch from Visio Guy - free
Electrical shapes - stencils and templates by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
Electronics shapes - stencils and templates by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
Electronics packages shapes - stencils and templates by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
Microprocessor chips shapes - stencils and templates by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
RF Cafe RF shapes for Visio - commercial
TTL chips shapes - stencils and templates by Sandrila Ltd - commercial with free samples download
Closits Closet and modular furniture design - free
Ethan Winer Using Visio Professional 5.0 for CD Labels and Artwork - free
CD jewel case from Visio Guy - free
Industrial automation
Opto 22 Shapes for Opto 22's automation products - free
Information Architects
Beacon16 iPhone wireframe and mockup shapes - free
Cloud shapes by John Goldsmith of Visual Signals - free
GUUUI rapid prototyping with Visio - free
Jesse James Garrett A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design - free
Michael Angeles Visio Wireframe Stencil - free
Nick Finck Wireframe, Sitemap and Process Flow shapes - free
Peter Van Dijck shapes from Information Architecture For Designers - free
Maps
Map of Asia and Australasia from Visio Guy - free
Map of Europe from Visio Guy - free
Map of Germany from Visio Guy - free
Map of Ireland from Visio Guy - free
Map of North America from Visio Guy - free
Map of South and Central America from Visio Guy - free
Map of UK from Visio Guy - free
Map of USA - extruded from Visio Guy - free
Petro-chem engineering
Oil/gas process stencil by Flair Infomatics Ltd. - commercial
Tools and utilities
cData a tool by David Parker of bVisual - a collection of five extra windows with data capability for Visio - commercial
celMaker a tool by David Parker of bVisual - to help developers copy custom properties, user-defined cells, actions and connection points from one master to another - commercial
Data Legends for Visio a tool by David Parker of bVisual which adds essential legends for External Data - commercial
Document Imager for Visio 2010 a tool by David Parker of bVisual to export a selection of pages, automatically named consistently into a folder of your choice - commercial
Graham Wideman Visio Developer's Survival Pack - free
Multi-Language Text for Visio a tool by David Parker of bVisual to maintain multiple language shape text or page names in the same document - commercial
Rules Tools for Visio 2010 Premium Edition a tool by David Parker of bVisual to enable users to write custom validation rules to suit their own purposes - free
Visio Super Utilities by Sandrila Ltd - a collection of useful utilities for Visio - commercial with free trial
Visual Risk Analysis a tool by David Parker of bVisual - commercial
visViewer a tool by David Parker of bVisual - a Visio file viewer - free
Processor 1 GHz processor with SSE2 support
Hard disk 3 GB available disk space
Graphics Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX 10 graphics card.
Operating system Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 10, 32-bit or 64-bit OS only
Internet access. Fees may apply.
Microsoft account
Some features may require additional hardware or services, for example:
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2013, Microsoft SharePoint Online, or Microsoft OneDrive for Business is required for coauthoring.
Skype for Business or Lync is required for presence notification.
Visio Online Plan 1, which includes Visio Online and 2GB of OneDrive storage, enables users to create and share simple diagrams in their favorite browser. It’s best for basic diagramming needs.
Visio Online Plan 2 includes Visio desktop, Visio Online, and 2GB of OneDrive storage, making it our most powerful diagramming suite. It’s best for professional diagramming needs. Visio desktop comes with a robust library of built-in and third-party templates and shapes, as well as integrated collaboration tools. It also receives all latest feature releases and enables you to connect diagrams to live data. Plus, you can store and share your diagrams online, then use your favorite browser to view and edit them through Visio Online. Both Visio and Visio Online offer collaboration through in-app comments.
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Visio currently supports multiple data sources, including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Services, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Azure, and Microsoft SharePoint Lists and Business Connectivity Services.
Data-linking is only available through Visio, although you can view data-linked diagrams using Visio Online.
Visio shares many of the same security features as Microsoft Office apps. These include Information Rights Management (IRM) to set file access permissions and built-in data loss prevention (DLP) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help prevent data leaks. Likewise, Visio Online inherits all enterprise-grade security, privacy, and compliance features available through the Microsoft Cloud.
Yes. Any Visio Online diagram can be accessed, created, edited, and shared using your preferred mobile browser. There is also a native Visio Viewer app for iOS devices.1 You can only view diagrams using the app; editing capabilities are not available.
There is no Visio client version for Mac. Instead, you can use Visio Online to diagram in your browser.
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