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Stencils and the Stencil Library - OmniGraffle Tutorial
From the course: OmniGraffle 6 Essential Training
Stencils and the Stencil Library
Stencils are an important part of OmniGraffle. They're pre-built sets of objects that operate like tool kits, enabling you to build more complex diagrams more quickly and making them look good. The first place to look for stencils is here in our inspector's panel and it's the far one on the right called the Stencil Library. As you can see, here's a list of all of the stencils available to us and I recommend you take a look at some of these just to see what some of the options are. So we have shapes, which is one of the more common ones that we've seen before. Take a click back, we also have one for some three dimensional shapes. We have a bunch of maps and these are as you would expect, pre-built maps that allow us to either use the entirety of the United States or in fact each one of these is its own object,so if I just need Texas I can drag it out there. You'll notice that any stencil you're looking at has three views. This one shows the stencil completely assembled,this one shows…
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