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Drawio shapes

Kaspars_Zibarts — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:27:46 GMT

Does Checkpoint has any plans to release shapes for Drawio?

I really love the simplicity of the tool and other vendors i.e. Cisco or AWS all have published shapes there

Re: Drawio shapes

Borut — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:27:38 GMT

I would also like to see that happen sometime 🙂

Re: Drawio shapes

Danny — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:35:01 GMT

I'm using Check Point's Visio shapes [ Download ] in draw.io:
Appliances released in 2020 are still missing though.

Re: Drawio shapes

Kaspars_Zibarts — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:38:21 GMT

Visio is old school 🙂 and expensive 🙂 gave up on visio

Re: Drawio shapes

Danny — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 07:42:36 GMT

You don't need to use Visio. Just re-use Check Point's Visio shapes within draw.io as I showed in my last post.

Re: Drawio shapes

Kaspars_Zibarts — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:44:08 GMT

Ah, penny dropped! DOH! sorry 🙂

Re: Drawio shapes

Vincent_Bacher — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:46:14 GMT

Does this still work? Just tried to drag n drop the vss file into the "drag elements here" field and got the error message "service unavailable or blocked" (translated from german). Or do i have to enable this anywhere?

Re: Drawio shapes

Danny — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:17:21 GMT

Draw.io works very well with Check Point's Visio stencils.
Simply drag and drop a .vss file onto your draw.io diagram:

(view in My Videos)

Re: Drawio shapes

the_rock — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:24:06 GMT

Thanks for that @Danny

Re: Drawio shapes

skipi — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:32:00 GMT

There are just HW based icons available in that icon pack. I need architectural generic icons, like the ones by Cisco or AWS. I do not need HW box icon but rather icon of firewall (Checkpoint style) to place on network design picture.

Is there something like that available or in plans?

thanks

Re: Drawio shapes

Danny — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:40:13 GMT

Which specific icons are you looking for?

Some generic Check Point icons can be found here:

Re: Drawio shapes

Robin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:45:58 GMT

I have/had the same issue. It does not work in the (offline) desktop app but it does work in the online version in the browser in my case.

Re: Drawio shapes

Danny — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:06:10 GMT

This is a known limitation. You can import the stencils in the online web-based version, save the file to your desktop and continue to use it in your offline desktop app.

Re: Drawio shapes

the_rock — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:21:39 GMT

Just do what @Danny said, that works 100%.

Andy

Re: Drawio shapes

skipi — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:07:21 GMT

Thank you,

but I need some general icons for drawing high-level architecture/design diagrams (not too technically complex). Something that Cisco/AWS/Azure/other companies have in draw.io (e.g., Cisco SAFE). I could use them, but it's unfortunate to use Cisco (or AWS, Azure, or other vendors') icons when designing Check Point infrastructure.

Re: Drawio shapes

Danny — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:07:51 GMT

There are several SVG generators that will assist you to create any icons you are looking for.

Re: Drawio shapes

Don_Paterson — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:18:55 GMT

In theory this script should convert all of the CP Visio stencils to vsdx files, which the Draw.io desktop app can handle, in theory.

Dependencies:

Visio desktop app installed.
Directories set up in the script for the environment.

# Run in PowerShell with Visio installed
# Adjust input directory as required
$inputDir = "C:\Users\user\Downloads\CheckPoint\CheckPoint_Stencils_for_Visio"
$outputDir = "$inputDir\Converted"

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $outputDir -Force | Out-Null

$visio = New-Object -ComObject Visio.Application
$visio.Visible = $false

Get-ChildItem $inputDir -Include *.vss, *.vssx -File | ForEach-Object {
$doc = $visio.Documents.Open($_.FullName)
$outputFile = Join-Path $outputDir ($_.BaseName + ".vsdx")
$doc.SaveAs($outputFile)
$doc.Close()
Write-Host "Converted $($_.Name) -> $(Split-Path $outputFile -Leaf)"
}

$visio.Quit()

Re: Drawio shapes

skipi — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:51:59 GMT

OK, thank you. I know about some of them. I was just asking if there are any generic icons maintained by Checkpoint. I take it that there aren't any. Thanks for the info...

Re: Drawio shapes

Danny — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:10:29 GMT

Check Point is not a maintainer of generic icon images.