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How to Open MS Visio® 2013/2016 Files on a Mac®

Open Visio on Mac
Powerful business graphics and diagramming tools are the norm and not the exception for today’s businesses. For years the de facto standard file format for business has been Microsoft Visio™. Many people involved in visual communication need software tools that will read and write using the Visio file format. With the introduction of Visio 2013 Microsoft has changed the native file format used in earlier versions of Microsoft Visio. ConceptDraw PRO v10 file import and export works round-trip with the new Visio VSDX file format.
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How to Draw a Floor Plan for Your Office

Office Floor Plan
Designing the right office space is is an essential factor of business productivity. An office floor plan should reflect the needs of both employees and customers. ConceptDraw PRO allows you to draw the Floor Plan for your office using a special office equipment library as well as set of?special objects that?displays the?sizes, corners, squares and other floor plan details.

Interior Design Office Layout Plan Design Element

Building Drawing Tools. Design Elements — Office Layout Plan
Lucky interior design is an integral part of succesful work at office. The important challenge in office design planning is to find a balance between two main office activities: concentration and communication. Primarily you need to determine with a type of office space, this can be an open space or separate rooms. The first type is more suitable for communication and rapid interaction. That's why open offices and combined spaces are modern types of work space and often used, especially for private offices. Traditional office basically represents separate rooms arranged along the corridor. It is applied for the companies with small number of people or for enterprises divided on separate departments, and is practically inapplicable for teamwork. ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Office Layout Plans solution offers a lot of vector stencils libraries with design elements of office furniture and equipment for effective office interior design and office space planning, for easy creation Office Floor Plans and Office Layout Plans. Use ConceptDraw PRO to visualize process flowcharts, network architecture and program workflows like Visio for Mac and even more. The software can be used with different fields like business, engineering and construction, etc.
How to Draw a Floor Plan
How to Draw a Floor Plan

How To Draw Building Plans

Building Plan Software
Building Plan is the basis for implementation construction and repair works. Creation of Building Plans is the main purpose of architects and designers. They are required and even obligatory for builders to accurately implement your wishes and ideas during the building, designing or redesigning your home, flat, office, or any other premise. ConceptDraw PRO is a powerful quick building plan software for creating great-looking Office layouts, Home floor plans, Commercial floor plans, Storage building plans, Expo and Shopping mall building plans, School and Training building plans, Cafe or Restaurant plans, Gym and Spa area plans, Sport field plans, House interior designs, Electric and Telecom building plans, Fire and Emergency plans, HVAC plans, Security and Access plans, Plumbing and Piping plans, Plant layouts, etc. Use helpful samples, templates and variety of libraries with numerous building design elements from Floor Plans solution for ConceptDraw PRO software to facilitate design drawing process.
How to Draw a Floor Plan
How to Draw a Floor Plan
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How to Open Visio® VDX File Using ConceptDraw PRO

conceptdraw pro opens visio xml (vdx)
MS Visio file with the extention .VDX can be created with the MS Visio 2003-2007. It is a filename extension for the MS Visio XML drawing file format. MS Visio 2010 and earlier versions support reading and writing files in a binary VSD or xml-based VDX file formats. Since MS Visio 2013 drawing files are written in the new VSDX and VSDM file formats. The writing VDX files is no longer supported. If you used MS Visio 2003-2010 before and now is considering to switch to ConceptDraw PRO, maybe this is a good news - ConceptDraw PRO v10 is still supported reading and writing of Microsoft Visio XML file format. Thus replacing the diagramming software , allows to keep all your drawings, created in the old versions of MS Visio. Making business drawings with ConceptDraw PRO is easier than using MS Visio. Moreover, you will be able to use a huge number of business-oriented libraries supplied by ConceptDraw Solution Park. Also, using ConceptDraw you can create your custom objects and supplement libraries to cover your requirements.
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How to Draw a Fire Evacuation Plan for Your Office

emergency floor plan
Emergency Floor Plan is important to supply an office staff with a visual safety solution. Emergency Floor Plan diagram presents a set of standard symbols used to depict fire safety, emergency, and associated information. Using clear and standard symbols on fire emergency plans delivers the coherence of collective actions , helps to avoid embarrassment, and improves communications in an emergent situation. The fire emergency symbols are intended for the general emergency and fire service, as well as for building plans ,engineering drawings and insurance diagrams. They can be used during fire extinguishing and evacuation operations, as well as training. It includes vector symbols for emergency management mapping, emergency evacuation diagrams and plans. You can use ConceptDraw PRO to make the fire evacuation plans for your office simple, accurate and easy-to-read.

Office Ideas

Office Ideas
ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software offers the Office Layout Plans Solution from the Building Plans Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park with powerful tools to help you depict your construction and design Office Ideas.

ConceptDraw PRO Compatibility with MS Visio

ConceptDraw PRO Compatibility with MS Visio
The powerful diagramming and business graphics tools are now not exception, but the norm for today’s business, which develop in incredibly quick temp. But with the abundance of powerful business diagramming applications it is important to provide their compatibility for effective exchange the information between the colleagues and other people who maybe use different software in their work. During many years Microsoft Visio™ was standard file format for the business and now many people need the visual communication software tools that can read the Visio format files and also export to Visio format. The powerful diagramming and vector drawing software ConceptDraw PRO is ideal from the point of view of compatibility with MS Visio. Any ConceptDraw PRO user who have the colleagues that use MS Visio or any who migrates from Visio to ConceptDraw PRO, will not have any problems. The VSDX (Visio′s open XML file format) and VDX formatted files can be easily imported and exported by ConceptDraw PRO, you can see video about this possibility.
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How to Convert a Visio Stencils for Use in ConceptDraw PRO

MS Visio Stencil converted to ConceptDraw PRO
MS Visio provides users with a number of predefined stencils. Standard Visio stencils contain shapes that are basically used to create diagrams. The shapes can range from simple flow chart boxes or lines to more complicated shapes like servers, racks or anything else that needs to be represented in a graphical form. ConceptDraw PRO supports the possibility to open Visio stencils. With the introduction of Visio 2013 Microsoft has changed the native file format used in earlier versions of Microsoft Visio. Thus, when you are looking for professional tool to open and save in the newer Visio 2013 file format on Mac, ConceptDraw PRO v10 is exactly solution for you. ConceptDraw PRO v10 file import and export works round-trip with the new Visio VSDX file format and at the same time supports the improved import of VDX file format. To use Visio stencils created with MS Visio 2010 in your diagrams, created with ConceptDraw PRO, follow the steps described in the following article.
This office interior design sample illustrates cubicle layout of furniture on the floor plan.
"Тhe cubicle, cubicle desk, office cubicle or cubicle workstation is a partially enclosed workspace, separated from neighboring workspaces by partitions that are usually 5–6 feet (1.5–1.8 m) tall. Its purpose is to isolate office workers from the sights and noises of an open workspace so that they may concentrate without distractions. Cubicles are composed of modular elements such as work surfaces, overhead bins, drawers, and shelving, which can be configured depending on the user's needs. Installation is generally performed by professionals, although some cubicles allow configuration changes to be performed by users without specific training." [Cubicle. Wikipedia]
The office interior design example "Cubicle layout" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Office Layout Plans solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Office floor plan
Office floor plan, window, casement, wall, sofa, side chair, chair, sectional sofa with arms, sectional sofa, sofa, round table, table, room, plant, potted plant, house plant, potted plant, flat file, door, desk, right hand return, desk, left hand return, chair with arms, chair, bookcase, L-workstation, workstation,
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office layout, office ideas, office concepts, small office design, office floor plans, office layout ideas, home office ideas, home office design ideas Office Layout Plans

office layout, office ideas, office concepts, small office design, office floor plans, office layout ideas, home office ideas, home office design ideas
Office layouts and office plans are a special category of building plans and are often an obligatory requirement for precise and correct construction, design and exploitation office premises and business buildings. Designers and architects strive to make office plans and office floor plans simple and accurate, but at the same time unique, elegant, creative, and even extraordinary to easily increase the effectiveness of the work while attracting a large number of clients.

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How to Open MS Visio® 2003-2010 Files on Mac®

visio-vsd-file-convertor
The ConceptDraw PRO has slve the problem for those who need to share MS Visio documents between users of different operation systems. ConceptDraw Visio File Conversion is a free web service, that is available to anyone who has a requirement to open Visio (VSD) documents in ConceptDraw PRO. This service was created for Mac OS X users , who need to open visual documents saved in Visio(VSD) file format. If you have heard from many people that they frequently faced difficulties with sharing their MS Visio documents between Windows and Mac OS X users, be sure that there were no ConceptDraw PRO users among them.
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How to Convert MS Visio 2003-2010 Custom Library to ConceptDraw PRO

Workflow diagram created using MS Visio custom stencil converted to ConceptDraw PRO library
Microsoft Visio allows users to create a new custom stencil to store objects that one want to reuse later or share it with other people. ConceptDraw PRO supports the possibility to open Visio custom stencils and shapes. With the introduction of Visio 2013 Microsoft has changed the native file format used in earlier versions of Microsoft Visio. Thus, when you are looking for professional tool to open and save in the newer Visio 2013 file format on Mac. ConceptDraw PRO v10 is exactly solution for you.