Visio 2010 Tutorial

Spring 2013

Introduction
Microsoft Office Visio 2010 is drawing and diagramming software that helps transform concepts
into a visual representation. This tutorial is designed for people who are new to Visio. For the
purposes of this tutorial, we are going to focus on how to create a logical diagram and flow chart
when drawn in Visio.

Objective
After this tutorial, you will have learned how to:
a. Create a logical diagram
b. Add text to a diagram and format the text
c. Create a flowchart diagram using shapes and connectors

Getting Started
Logical Diagram Plot
Start the Visio Drawing
Click Start to All Programs to Microsoft Office to Visio.
You should get a screen similar to Figure 1.

Figure 1
Creating a new Template
Double Click Engineering (shown on Figure 1), you should get a screen similar to Figure 2.

Figure 2
Creating a new Drawing
Double Click Circuits and Logic (shown on Figure 2), you should get a screen similar to
Figure 3.

Figure 3
Adding new Stencils
Click More Shapes to Engineering to Electrical Engineering, you can choose the
stencils you need. Here, we add Analog and Digital Logic (US units), Integrated Circuit

Components (US units), Terminals and Connectors (US units), Transmission Paths (US
units). You should get a screen similar to Figure 4.

Figure 4
Drawing Logic Diagram (SN74LS00)
Click on the triangle on the left of Pointer Tool, choose Line to draw rectangle, and choose
Arc to draw arc. You should get a screen similar to Figure 5.

Figure 5

Choose Rectangle to draw pins. You should get a screen similar to Figure 6.

Figure 6
Select all the rectangles, click right key of the mouse, choose Group, after that you can move
those rectangles as a whole part. You should get a screen similar to Figure 7.

Figure 7

Adding Text on the Diagrams

Click Text to add text on the diagram, here you can change the font size and font face. Select
all the text, click right key of the mouse, choose Group. You should get a screen similar to
Figure 8.

Figure 8
Adding Logic gates
Draw Logic gate 2 from the Analog and Digital Logic (US units) stencil into the drawing
window. You should get a screen similar to Figure 9.

Figure 9

Click the right key of the mouse, choose Configure Logic Gate. You should get a screen
similar to Figure 10.

Figure 10
Click Configure Logic Gate. Here, you can change the gate type and numbers of input and
output. You should get a screen similar to Figure 11.

Figure 11

Click the gate, and rotate the gate. You should get a screen similar to Figure 12.

Figure 12
Adding Wires to the gates
Click Connector or Line to add wires to the gates and pins. You should get a screen similar
to Figure 12.

Figure 13

Adding different types of gates to the input of SL74S00 chip

Click the gate, select Configure Logic Gate, adjust the parameters, you can get different gates.
Here we get 3-input OR-gate, 2-input NOR-gate, 4-input NAND-gate, and 2-input ORgate. You should get a screen similar to Figure 14.

Figure 14
Adding different types of Flip-Flops to the output of SL74S00 chip
Draw flip-flop from the Analog and Digital Logic (US units) to the drawing window. Click
on the right key of the mouse, select Configure Flip-Flop to change the flip-flop types. You
should get a screen similar to Figure 15.

Figure 15
Click Configure Flip-Flop to choose different types of flip-flop. You should get a screen
similar to Figure 16.

Figure 16

Adding wires to flip-flops

Select Connector or Line to add wires between the output pins of the chip and the flip-flop.
You should get a screen similar to Figure 17.

Figure 17
Adding I/O port to the chip
Draw I/O port from the Analog and Digital Logic (US units) to the drawing window. Select
Connector or Line to add wires to VCC, GND, Output and Input. You should get a
screen similar to Figure 18.

Figure 18

 Flow chart
Step 1: From the categories areas select Basic Flow Chart, and select Flow Chart (Figure 4).

Figure 4

Step 2: Double click on Flow Chart, you will see Visio Screen Layout (Figure 5).

Figure 5
Working with Shapes from a Basic Flow chart Template

Layout your screen as follows

Adding Text to the shape

Adding the Connector

a. Select the Diamond Shape

b. Select the connector tool button from the home tab

c. Move the mouse to the position shown below note the cursor has changed to reveal the
connector tool. As you position to a point you can connect to the shape a small red square will
appear.

d. Depress the left mouse key and drag the mouse pointer to the center left edge connection point
of the shape above.

e. Release the mouse Button and you will see a connector from the diamond to the
rectangle above and shown.

Add text to connectors

a. Double click on the connector line to type in text

b. Enter your required text then click away from the Line

c. Layout Document as below.

Reference: Microsoft Visio 2010, http://www.mousetraining.co.uk/