# Drop shape masters

### Overview

The recommended way to get shapes on a page is to *drop* a *master* from a *stencil*.

### **Dropping a master**

The following code shows the simplest case. It drops a "Rectangle" shape into the current page at position 4,5.

```
$basic_u = Open-VisioDocument "basic_u.vss"
$master = Get-VisioMaster "Rectangle" -Document $basic_u
$points = New-VisioPoint 4,5
$shape = New-VisioShape -Master $master -Position $points
```

### **Dropping a master multiple times**

```
$basic_u = Open-VisioDocument "basic_u.vss"
$master = Get-VisioMaster "Rectangle" -Document $basic_u
$points = @(
    New-VisioPoint 4 5
    New-VisioPoint 6 1
    New-VisioPoint 0 0
    )
$shapes = New-VisioShape -Master $master -Position $points

Set-VisioText -Text "Hello World" -Shape $shapes
```

### **Dropping multiple masters at the same time**

In this case, we want different masters dropped all at the same time

```
$basic_u = Open-VisioDocument "basic_u.vss"
$masters = Get-VisioMaster -Name "Rectangle","Triangle","Circle"  -Document $basic_u
$points = @(
    New-VisioPoint 4 5
    New-VisioPoint 6 1
    New-VisioPoint 0 0
    )
$shape = New-VisioShape -Master $masters -Position $points

Set-VisioText -Text "Hello World" -Shape $shape
```

The `New-VisioShape` cmdlet returns a list of integers - these are the shape ids of the shapes that were created as a result of the drop operation.


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