Many drawing products feature so-called "base point" operations. In particular, AutoCad has "Copy with base point", "Move with base point". This operation may be quite useful for precise positioning of the content being copied/moved. To achieve this, at the first step a "base point" is selected, and on the second step a new position for this "base point" is selected. Check out this video to see how it works:
This extension provides this functionality for Visio:
The workflow is shown in the Video. Step by step:
- Select shapes to copy/move.
- Press the button "Copy" ("Move") on the extension pane.
- Specify the "base point" (click CTRL, and holding it, set a point on the drawing). The fact that "base point" was selected will be indicated by changing the button icon (first point turns red)
- Select new position for the base point. Holding CTRL, set a second point. The selected shapes will be copied (moved) to the new position in such a way that the base point will move to the this new position you specified.
Download (supported: Visio 2003/2007/2010/2013, both x86/x64, English/German/Russian).
| File | Description | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| TwoPoints_2013_05_x64.msi | Visio BasePointAddin (x64) | 2.4 MiB | 26.05.2013 |
| TwoPoints_2013_05_x86.msi | Visio BasePointAddin (x86) | 1.9 MiB | 26.05.2013 |
The idea of the extension appeared as a result of this discussion. The source code is available on github.
Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated!