1               Introduction

Simple shapes (e.g. Capacitors) can be placed easily and quickly via Drag & Drop from EB Stencils on a sheet or can be edited as needed in Visio.

For more complex shapes with many single elements (graphics) - such as Cable ducts, Connector Assemblies - the handling can be slow. This may be the case if the shape was created from a DXF file. Imported shapes are often assemblies of numerous dots and lines which enlarge the complexity of the shapes. The lower the number of elements which the shapes consist of, the faster becomes the placing and editing of them. For this reason it makes sense to simplify very complex shapes. This can be achieved by an optimization.