Making a shape act like a connector and snap to another shape. Visio

Question

I'm pretty new to Visio but I'm trying to figure how I could possible design a stencil to snap to a connector marker on another stencil/shape.

I have looked into actually editing the connector itself too see how its designed. I'm wondering If I could recreate the Endpoint on a single location for a shape stencil. Which would snap into place on to the designated shape, when a user drags it on to the worksheet.

Would anyone have any ideas or pointers on how I could achieve this?

Connector is "thing in itself"! How it works only the original developers of visio (in the era before MS) knew... — Surrogate, Jun 03 '22 at 21:17
@PaulHerber, Maybe I didn't explain it too well but I was wanted to create a shape that acts like a connector to attach to a location on another shape. I figured it out and will be sharing the resource I used! — Robit010, Jun 06 '22 at 11:29

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '22 at 11:41

I found my solution here.

http://visiozone.com/?p=298

Pretty much I had to take a 1D shape (A line) and Adjust the parameters of its boundary box inside the master shape, then group it too get it to act like a 2d shape. After, I could edit the group and add the shape I wanted then. Deleting the line and adjusting the endpoints.

Highly recommend checking the link out. I hope this helps anyone out there with this issue.

I'm not sure why its really difficult to find information on Visio. Being a 19 year old program. Haha.

Making a shape act like a connector and snap to another shape. Visio

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