You can choose to represent wireless signals in Visio in multiple ways. You can use line connectors, which will not have any bearing on Wire reports, or you could use actual "wires" in SI to represent the signal if you want the connections to display on Wire reports.

When using either method, you may want to use a specific color for the line or for the pattern of the line to vary from your actual wires, e.g., dashed or dotted vs. solid. Additionally, you may want to differentiate the color or pattern for each type of wireless signal, e.g., WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc.

In the following examples, we will connect two Schematic shapes, but you can use this method on any page style in Visio. Also, each Schematic shape shown in the examples needs to have an input or an output added to account for the wireless signals. You can add these I/Os however you wish, but the following text is used in these examples.

If you are not interested in these connections displaying on Wire reports, you can use the Connector shape in Visio or choose to use the Line Connector shape from your D-Tools Library of shapes.

When using the Connector shape from Visio, you simply click on a connection point on one shape, hold the mouse left mouse button, then drag the connector to a connection point on the other shape and release the mouse button.

You can then use the Line options in Visio to change the color, pattern, weight, line ends, etc., to your liking.

In this example, we changed the color to purple from a solid line to a dashed line. To add text to the line and designate what type of signal this is, double-click the line and type.

You can then copy and paste the line to make all the needed connections.

If you want to use the D-Tools Line Connector shape, drag it to the page and drop it.

You will then be prompted to choose a "Type". Type is another word for subcategory, so you will want to ensure that you add your wireless signals as subcategories to your "Wire and Cable" category.

This text will be displayed on the shape.

Then you connect these to the two shapes and make any modifications you want via the Line options in Visio. In this example, we use an arrow on the end of the shape, but change the color to orange and a dashed line.

If you want wireless signals to display on any of the Wire reports in SI, you will need to set up the signals as a "fake" wire in your catalog and use one of the D-Tools Wire shapes vs. a Line connector. Here, fake wire means it has no dollar value or labor assigned to it; it will just be used to get a wire shape on the page.

Below is an example of how to set up a fake wire.

When this fake wire is added to a Schematic page in Visio, the "Finish Wire" shape will drop vs. a Line Connector shape. Notice that it is assigned a component ID just like real wires and each signal will have a unique component ID.

Shown below is this (and another) wire shape connected. This time we made the color red and used a dotted pattern. We chose to show the End Text only on the wire shapes.

If you now run a Wire report, these connections will be displayed.

Shown below is the Wire Connections report.

Whichever method you choose above, krememberthat you can enter IP addresses for the components using the wireless signal for reference.