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This is how you can create and edit the line end shapes that come with SI 2015. Requires some basic to advanced Visio skills. There are two parts. 1: How to name and create a new line end. 2: How to distribute the new line ends to other users in your company.
How to create a new line end
- Start Visio in a new or existing SI 2015 project
- Open the Visio Drawing Explorer. Developer>>Drawing Explorer checkbox

- Right click on the Line Ends section and select New Pattern
- Give the new pattern a name, in this case I am creating a 5 port phoenix connector. Make sure Line end and Scaled are checked and Behavior is selected as below.

- Find the new shape name in the Drawing Explorer and double click on it to open the edit window.

- Using the Visio tools draw the shape you want represented. it is a lot easier to start with an existing line end and modify that one. Just open another line end and copy. In this case I am starting with the PHOENIX-4 Line end. The shape size should be around 4" wide and 1.5" tall but not super critical.
- When you get the shape the way you want it to look you need to flatten it so that it is just a single layer. This is done by selecting the entire shape and using Developer>>Operations>>Combine
- Next you need to relocate the PinX to the right of the shape. This is done in the ShapeSheet Shape Transform section. Change the LocPinX formula from Width*0.5 to Width*1. This will align the shape to start where the line ends.

- Close the shape edit window and select save.
- Test the shape by dropping a finish wire on the page. Double click on the wire shape to open the edit product window. Go to the I/O's section. Add PHOENIX-5 to the Manage Terminals list. It has to be spelled EXACTLY the same as the shape name.
- Save and Close, Save and Close, Update and Close.

- If everything was done right you should have a new Phoenix-5 line end and text at the end of the wire shape.

How to distribute the new custom line ends
Visio custom line line ends can only exist in a drawing. In order to distribute we created some code that takes a special custom shape and uses that to populate new drawings at startup. Too complex to explain the why, but here is the how:
- Right click on the Wire Shapes section of the shape tree and choose Open Stencil

- You should see something that looks like this: Right click on the Wire Shapes Header and choose edit stencil

- Double click the Line End Transfer shape. This is just a container to hold the line ends. Expand that shape vertically so you can zoom in and see the individual connectors.
- Open the shape by Right Click>>Group>>Open Group
- Go to the last shape on the bottom and copy the last shape. Should look something like this:

- Right Click on the shape you just copied and go to Format>>Line
- Choose the new shape name you created from above for both the begin and end. Click OK.

- When you click OK you should see the new line end.
- Double click on the line in the middle, this will highlight the text. Change that to the proper name from above, in this case it is Phoenix-5

- Close the group window
- Close the shape window and click Yes on the update line end transfer. This will save the Line End Transfer shape to the stencil

- Save the stencil by clicking on the disc icon.

- Restart the current drawing or start a new drawing and test to see if it worked.