Visio stencils for Cisco equipment

Robert T. · 16 Mar 2022 at 19:00

Hi all,
I envisaged great idea for my work - will draw Visio diagram of all our network layout, including switches and all redundancy and virtual links between several locations.... I know, great, right..?

But I need stencils for Cisco hardware and finding it has been a challenge..
Need SG350XG-24T, SG550XG-8, WS-C4500X-32, WS-C3850-12XS-S, WS-C2960X-48FPD-L, WS-C2960X-24PD-L, WS-C2960X-24PS-L, WS-C2960CX-8TC-L

Help!

Caged · 16 Mar 2022 at 19:24

Did you even attempt to look for them yourself? It's the first Google hit for "cisco visio stencils".

Robert T. · 16 Mar 2022 at 21:41

Well, yes, I did.

Let me re-phrase this:
Thou Cisco website does provide 2960 series stencils, they are old format and now deemed unsafe by my Visio. Same for 4500X. Meaning still no access to them, I should have mention that, my bad.
Only working ones I found were 2950's but in shapes for US, not UK...

I still do not see SG350, nor 550's, unless they go by different name..?

Surprisingly - I did found working 3850 stencils, must have missed it when searching first time around..

If there's way of converting them from 200-2002 version to newer without disabling Trust Center, I'd be interested..?

Caged · 16 Mar 2022 at 22:25

Just use the SG300/500 series stencils for the SG350 series, they look pretty much identical. They're also EOL now so won't be getting a stencil if they haven't made them at any point in their 5-year lifespan

If you can get the stencils to open then you can move the shapes you need into a new stencil that is a modern file format. If you have corporate IT restrictions on opening the stencils then this won't be an option.

Robert T. · 17 Mar 2022 at 17:58

Ok, thanks for info..
I guess I could spin up a non-networked VM with older Office and convert them, not sure what versions I'd need but that's less problem, more of inconvenience..
Not used Visio before in that capacity, so learning ensured

which is always a good thing..