TRAINING + TOOLKIT
Teach Your Team to Draw Patent-Ready Figures in Visio
30+ micro-courses plus the IP DaVinci Toolkit — a complete training system for attorneys, paralegals, engineers, and students.
Patent Drawing School – Visio Edition shows your team exactly how to produce clean, examiner-friendly patent drawings directly in Microsoft Visio. The Toolkit and templates remove guesswork so everyone follows the same method.
- 30+ focused micro-courses with step-by-step practice files.
- IP DaVinci Toolkit: Visio templates + 11 patent-specific stencils.
- Designed for law firms, corporate IP, R&D teams, and universities.
What’s Included in Patent Drawing School
Training, tools, and practice diagrams that work together.
Training
Micro-Courses That Match Real Patent Tasks
Short, practical lessons that mirror real figures: flowcharts, system diagrams, GUIs, graphs, tables, and more.
- ✔ 30+ micro-courses, each focused on one drawing skill.
- ✔ Theory + on-screen demo + practice exercise.
- ✔ Perfect for busy professionals — progress in small steps.
Toolkit
Visio Templates & 11 Patent Stencils
The IP DaVinci Toolkit gives you ready-made shapes, layers, and templates tuned for patent drawings.
- ✔ A4 and Letter templates for design & utility drawings.
- ✔ 11 stencils: annotation, flowcharts, graphs, GUI, symbols & more.
- ✔ Shapes built to resize cleanly and stay compliant.
Practice
Guided Exercises & Reference Diagrams
Every major topic includes practice diagrams so learners see exactly what ‘good’ looks like.
- ✔ Before/after examples and model solutions.
- ✔ Silent video labels and step lists for self-paced learning.
- ✔ Great for homework, labs or internal workshops.
Optional Cloud
Optional: Cloud Workspace for Non-Windows Users
For teams on Mac, Linux, iPad or locked-down laptops, training can run entirely in the cloud.
- ✔ No local Visio install required.
- ✔ Cloud desktops preloaded with Toolkit & sample files.
- ✔ Ideal for universities, mixed hardware teams, and remote staff.
Outcomes for Your Team
From ‘I’ve never drawn in Visio’ to consistent, patent-ready figures.
Confident Visio Users
Even non-designers learn a structured way to work in Visio that fits patent practice.
- ✔ Know which tools to use (and which to ignore).
- ✔ Fluent in zooming, selection, layers, and shape editing.
- ✔ Comfortable tracing images into clean line art.
Standardized Patent Figures
Everyone works from the same templates, stencils, and naming conventions.
- ✔ Annotation, flowcharts, GUIs, graphs, and tables all follow one system.
- ✔ Drawings from different people look like they came from one studio.
- ✔ Easier supervision, review, and delegation.
Fewer Back-and-Forth Iterations
Clearer drawings up front mean less time lost in revisions with inventors, examiners, or outside vendors.
- ✔ Better alignment between engineering and legal diagrams.
- ✔ Cleaner figures reduce avoidable objections.
- ✔ Attorneys spend more time on strategy, less on redlining drawings.
Core Products
Mix and match training, tools, cloud workspaces, and services to fit your workflow.
Patent Drawing School — Core Training
$497
USD — one-time per user
Attorneys, paralegals, patent engineers, graduate students and researchers learning to create patent-ready drawings in Visio.
- ✔ Full access to 30+ micro-courses (Visio Edition).
- ✔ All practice diagrams, exercises, and reference solutions.
- ✔ Course updates for the current edition.
IP DaVinci Toolkit
$197/year
USD — annual per-user license
Teams who already know Visio basics and want speed, consistency, and a proven patent drawing system.
- ✔ A4 & Letter Visio templates for design and utility filings.
- ✔ 11 patent-focused stencils (annotation, GUIs, graphs, tables, flowcharts, and more).
- ✔ Toolkit updates within the active subscription term.
DaVinci Cloud Workspace (Optional)
from €59/user/month
EUR — billed separately; requires Visio Plan 2 or BYOL
Non-Windows users or locked-down environments where local installs are difficult.
- ✔ Managed Windows desktop with Visio support.
- ✔ Preloaded IP DaVinci Toolkit & sample course files.
- ✔ Access from Mac, Linux, Chromebook or iPad.
How Patent Drawing School Fits Into the IP DaVinci System
Patent Drawing School is one part of the broader IP DaVinci ecosystem:
- IP DaVinci Studio – when you want drawings done for you by a specialist team.
- Patent Drawing School + Toolkit – when you want your staff, engineers, or students to produce drawings internally.
- DaVinci Cloud Workspace – when users don’t have Windows or can’t install Visio locally.
You can start with just the training, just the Toolkit, or both together — and later add Cloud Workspace or Studio support as your caseload grows.
For multi-seat law firm, R&D or university deployments, we can bundle Training, Toolkit, and optional Cloud access under a single agreement.
👉 For full bundle pricing across all products, visit the IP DaVinci Pricing page.
Want to See if Patent Drawing School is a Fit?
Tell us who you want to train — paralegals, junior attorneys, engineers, or students — and we’ll recommend the right mix of Training, Toolkit, and optional Cloud access.