Visio 2010 is a great tool for designing PERT charts. Since it lacks some of the shapes needed to easily add and connect nodes with other PERT items, I came up with a few tools to make it easier.
My step-by-step tutorial explains how to create nodes and connections that work seamlessly. After completing these steps, you will have three new shapes to work with:
PERT Node, PERT Connector, and PERT Task.
My Flight Operations professor would like his students to create procedural flow diagrams in Visio 2010 using comment boxes with both solid lines and dashed connectors. This turns out to be easier said than done because the latest version of Visio has line style “effects” that globally override any dashed connectors. We can create the comment boxes easily, but how do we get them to automatically show up with specific connector formats?
The answer is to create a custom shape using a connector that is not styled.
My step-by-step instructions will guide you through a procedure to achieve that outcome. I am providing screen shots as a visual aid, though a corresponding flow chart can be provided as needed.