Drawio shapes

[Kaspars_Zibarts]

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

[Borut]

I would also like to see that happen sometime 🙂

[Danny]

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

[Kaspars_Zibarts]

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

[Danny]

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.

[Kaspars_Zibarts]

Ah, penny dropped! DOH! sorry 🙂

[Vincent_Bacher]

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?

[Danny]

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

[the_rock]

Thanks for that @Danny 

[Robin]

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.

[Danny]

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.

[Don_Paterson]

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()

[the_rock]

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

Andy

[skipi]

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

[Danny]

Which specific icons are you looking for?

Some generic Check Point icons can be found here:

• checkpoint.com/harmony/mobile-access/
• checkpoint.com/about-us/online-press-kit/
• PillarLogos

[skipi]

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.

[Danny]

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

• svg.io
• svgai.org
• svgmaker.io
• vectorart.ai
• ..

[skipi]

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...

[Danny]

Check Point is not a maintainer of generic icon images.