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Azure Visio Stencil Pack: 1,764 Microsoft Azure Icons

Azure Visio Stencil Pack

Visio-Azure is a free, complete Azure Visio stencil pack: 1,764 Microsoft Azure service icons packaged as ready-to-use Visio stencils (.vssx), with working shape search, nine connection points per icon, resource shape data, and both Metric and US-unit builds. It is a drop-in alternative to Microsoft’s Azure Visio stencils, which Microsoft no longer ships as stencil files.

⬇ Download the Metric Azure Visio stencils  ·  ⬇ Download the US Azure Visio stencils

What is an Azure Visio stencil?

A Visio stencil is a .vssx file containing reusable master shapes that appear in Visio’s Shapes panel. An Azure Visio stencil holds the Microsoft Azure service icons as proper Visio masters, so you can drag a service onto the canvas, glue connectors to fixed anchor points, search by name, and attach metadata, rather than pasting flat images.

Visio-Azure turns the entire current Azure icon set into one such stencil pack: every icon is a clean vector, normalised to the same drop size, with the Visio features that make a diagram maintainable.

Why Microsoft no longer ships Azure Visio stencils

Microsoft publishes its Azure architecture icons as SVG and PNG downloads, not as Visio stencils. Dropping those raw images into Visio gives you artwork with none of the stencil behaviour: no connection points, captions land over the icon, sizes vary wildly, there is no shape data, and shape search finds nothing.

Visio-Azure exists to close that gap, the alternative to Microsoft’s Azure Visio stencils: it converts the official Azure architecture icons into a fully-equipped Visio stencil pack so you get search, anchors, sizing, and shape data out of the box.

Metric or US units?

The pack ships in two identical builds that differ only in their internal Visio measurement units: Metric (_m) for centimetre/millimetre drawings and US (_u) for inch/feet drawings. Match the build to your drawing or icons drop at the wrong size and search can miss them. See Metric vs US units for the full explanation.

Download

  Metric (cm/mm) US (inches/feet)
All icons (one stencil) Azure_All-Icons_V-5_m.vssx Azure_All-Icons_V-5_u.vssx
Everything (zip) Metric stencils zip US stencils zip
By group Stencil-Metric/ Stencil-US/

New to it? The Getting Started guide walks through installing the stencil into Visio’s My Shapes and building your first diagram.

How the Azure Visio stencil pack compares

  Microsoft’s official icons Visio-Azure stencil pack
Format SVG / PNG images Visio stencils (.vssx)
Connection points None Nine named anchors per icon
Shape data None Seven resource fields per icon
Sizing Varies per icon Normalised to 20 mm
Shape search Not applicable Works (keywords in every indexed cell)
Units One Metric and US builds
Dark mode No 27 white -DM twins
Price Free Free (GPL-3.0 engineering)

Frequently asked questions

Is it free? Yes, the full Azure Visio stencil pack is free and open under GPL-3.0; the icon artwork remains copyright Microsoft. See the FAQ and Licence.

Which Visio versions work? Visio for Microsoft 365 (Windows and Mac) and Visio 2019/2021/2024 desktop. Visio for the Web cannot load custom .vssx files.

Why isn’t search finding the icons? Either a unit mismatch or Visio’s shape search is off, see Enabling search.

More questions? See the full FAQ.


Visio-Azure is a community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. Azure and the Microsoft product names are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

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