How to represent a group of servers on a 3D network diagram

Question

I'd like to create a representation of a group of servers similar to the one in the link below.

Finding the shapes for the servers is easy enough, but what shape is being used for the "grouping" of servers.

The "grouping" shape is positioned at the "back" of the server shapes and presents a nice shadow 3D grouping look.

http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/chhopkin/WindowsLiveWriter/Visio2010addinforSystemCenterOperationsM_8E47/image_2.png

Is this shape on the network stencil somewhere?

I suppose this might be referred to as an isometric represenation.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Have a look on

http://www.visguy.com/vgforum/

and search for isometric, you'll find various discussions about shapes like this (and the shapes themselves of course).

P.S. you'll need to create an account in order to download files.

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-- Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Engineering and software shapes for Visio - http://www.sandrila.co.uk/

Answer 2

check this link

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Office_Suites/MS_Office/Q_26339632.html

scroll to the bottom of the page

Answer 3

check this link

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Office_Suites/MS_Office/Q_26339632.html

scroll to the bottom of the page

Not really fair to expect people to go to a website that requires payment when we all give our time and knowledge freely here.

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-- Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. Engineering and software shapes for Visio - http://www.sandrila.co.uk/