Visio stencils of NI components

[eganders]

We are using the PXI 4 & 8 slot chassis and the Compact Rio.  Some of the items are:
PXI-1031, PXI-8196, PXI-7833R, CRIO-9151, PXI-8430/4, 9853, 9401, CRIO-9002, 9401 & CRIO-9101.
I agree that it is not hard to make a stencil of these items, and I am doing it, but they will not have the "intelligence" that someone that really put the time into it could produce.  I just thought it would be nice not to have to reinvent a wheel that is possibly not as good as one that already existed.
It would seem that there would be a strong Visio following in the NI community since they both have similar concepts.  NI is a graphical interface to create instrumentation and Visio has a similar intuitive interface to create drawings and presentations.  I was quite surprised when I kept coming up with nothing in Google searches in the newsgroups.

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Good afternoon eganders,
 
I asked around in R&D and no one was aware of any Visio stencils for any PXI devices.  I apologize for the inconvenience, if I hear of any through marketing I will let you know.
 
Sincerely,
Minh Tran
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

[eganders]

Minh,
 
I would be very interested in any information you can dig up about Visio being used for diagramming NI equipment. 
 
If you are familiar with Visio and what it can do, maybe you can tell me what the alternative approach to what I am doing might be.  If I was just doing NI equipment only, I guess just using the NI diagrams would be the way to go.  However, the NI equipment represents just part of the system we are building.  We have 6 CAN buses and a number of other pieces of equipment interconnected that we have to represent in an overall system schematic.  Visio seems like the ideal way of easily showing all these pieces of equipment. 
 
I feel that the NI community should have some of the most innovative people in engineering as members.  I therefore wonder if I am missing something here.  Is there another way people draw up overall system schematics that represent many other pieces of equipment of which NI components are just part of the system?