Also, building a database diagram from the Tables window is faster in Visio 2002 than in Visio 2000. NET becomes available. The Visio 2002 building plan solutions increase user efficiency and provide custom features for incorporating data and CAD drawings into diagrams. Shapes manipulated only through dialog boxes in Visio 2000 can now be updated through direct resizing or positioning, or by specifying properties in the Custom Properties window. Visio Professional provides shapes that represent curved walls and also allows any flat wall to be transformed into a curved wall.
Users can easily change the curvature of curved wall shapes.
Improved wall intersection cleanup. Visio automatically cleans up wall intersections, reducing the amount of cleanup required in creating building plans. Floor plan data population. Users can automatically populate floor plans with data stored in Active Directory, Exchange, Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, or other ODBC-compliant data sources. Color by value.