I'm resorting to using Visio quite a lot for work now. VisioCafe is a great resource, and the level of detail of all HP stuff is fantastic

Cisco however seem to have their own set of stencils, but they're crap :thumbdwn: Take a Cisco Catalyst 4500 series chassis, the line cards aren't the right size. Take the 6500 series, there's only a very small seletion of line cards. :(

So anyone know of another set of decent quality shapes for Cisco?

Ta.

Techrepublic used to have some fairly decent ones, Xav. Try here :- Download this free Visio stencil for rack device diagramming

Thanks Mat, but that TechRepublic is a big con :thumbdwn:

Nothing really of use there and the "free" download apparently costs $99

I take it you don't like the ones on the cisco site then?

Have you managed to find any yet? If not let me know and i'll have a look (don't want to turn on the work laptop this time at night!)

You're right, Eddy, I'm not keen on the Cisco ones. They do some which are fine, but there's no consistency in them, particularly regarding the points in my previous post :(

I gave up in the end. If you do have some usable ones, I'll take them - after vector-based "photos" of them so end customers get an idea of what it will look like.

Just had a look and everythng we have points to the Cisco website, however we do have a different link:

Cisco Corporate Marketing | Network Topology Icons

Not sure if thats just an old set because we also have the current link listed.

Guess you best bet is to with the HP kit

Hmm, tried a few things, but none of them work or are suited.

Thanks Eddy, but it looks like Cisco are the only guys (understandably) managing this and they're just not very good at it at all.

Yeah, HP drawings are great. But I can't put in a Procurve switch if we're using a Cisco.

The alternatives is to use bitmap photos but of course you end up with huge visio file sizes and they don't scale well at all unless you have high res photos which just make it even more inefficient.