A modern, searchable Microsoft Visio stencil set for Cisco product and network icons.

486 masters across 11 groups, shipped in both Metric and US-unit builds. Every master carries nine named connection points, seven network shape-data fields, a pre-positioned caption, working shape search, and a 20 mm normalised size. Icons drawn in Cisco's near-black inks ship a white -DM twin for dark canvases.

Full documentation lives on the project site: xeeva.github.io/Visio-Cisco

• Getting started: download, install into My Shapes, first diagram
• Metric vs US units: which build to use and why there are two
• Icon features: connection points, shape data, captions, dark-mode variants
• Enabling search: the search contract and how to switch Visio shape search on
• Troubleshooting and FAQ
• Release notes

Two identical icon sets ship, differing only in their internal Visio measurement units. Match the build to your drawing so icons drop at the correct physical size.

Not sure? In Visio: Design → Page Setup → Measurement units. Full explanation on the units page.

The easiest start is the all-icons stencil, or the drawing-resources companion:

Individual group stencils:

The current release is also published as a GitHub Release with per-unit zip downloads and a sample architecture drawing.

The per-icon source files are free and in this repo:

• SVG/: 486 individual .svg files, including the -DM variants, normalised and cleaned by the build pipeline
• PNG/: 486 .png renders at the 20 mm icon size and 300 DPI, aspect preserved and DPI-tagged so a pasted PNG drops at the correct physical size
• Visio-Cisco-Assets-V1.zip: both folders in a single download

Two layers of rights apply, and they are different things:

• The icon artwork is copyright Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco publishes its network topology icons for general use with these terms on the Cisco Brand Center: "Cisco icons are globally recognized and generally accepted as standard for network icon topologies. You may use them freely, but you may not alter them." Use the icons for network diagrams as Cisco intends; do not modify the artwork, and do not use it in any way that suggests Cisco affiliation or endorsement.
• The stencil engineering (the Visio packaging, connection points, shape data, caption and search treatment) is licensed under GPL-3.0: redistribute, modify, and use it freely, including in commercial work, provided you preserve the licence and attribution. The build pipeline that generates the set is private; its outputs are what is published here.

This is a community project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco and the Cisco product names used in master names are trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc.

• Request or report an icon: open an issue
• Discussions: github.com/xeeva/Visio-Cisco/discussions
• Sponsor: github.com/sponsors/xeeva funds upkeep of this project and its sibling Visio-Azure