The line color is a medium shade of gray. If you’re not into burning up too much color toner in your printer, there’s a black and white option. Here the wood’s grain color is a lighter brown, almost orange. I think it works best with darker fill colors, but let your imagination wander: This pattern has a very dark brown line color. You can see that with only three patterns, we can get quite a few variations! Wood-Dark Grain Below, I demonstrate the three patterns, using different background colors. You have to set the Pattern color, as shown in the dialog above. For that reason, I’ve provided three patterns: Wood-Dark Grain, Wood-Light Grain and Wood-Black & White.īut you can change the fill color of the shape you are applying the pattern to. It is important to note that you can’t change the grain color of the pattern. When you’re done, just close the wood grain pattern-containing drawing. So you can just open the drawing from this article’s download and the patterns will be available to your other drawings. Custom patterns from all open Visio documents will show in your list. See how the Wood-Dark Grain item shows in the Pattern field below?Ĭustom patterns show as text at the very bottom of the list. By turning this pattern tile into a Visio Custom Fill Pattern, you can apply it to your shapes using the Fill dialog. You can see that if you duplicate it in all directions, the lines…er…line up well: This is what the Visio wood grain fill pattern looks like in it’s rawest, simplest form.

And you can download it for free and use it to add texture to your technical drawings. Let’s just call it a medium-quality wood-grain pattern.

I wouldn’t say this is the ultimate wood grain pattern, but for twenty-two or so lines and v-shapes, it turned out nicely. Now, I didn’t spend a lot of time on it, but it turned out to be fairly decent. I had thought that Visio shipped with some wood-grain custom patterns, but when I went looking, I didn’t find much. One of my customers asked me about wood-grain fill patterns for Visio.

Wood pattern cad