The side panel now covers the PDU and the PDU appears to be within the enclosure. Right click on the side panel and select Shape > Bring to front. The PDU is now in the group but the side panel of the enclosure is beneath the PDU shape so the PDU does not look like it’s inside the enclosure. 
Visio can be a bit finicky under these conditions so zoom in close to see the shape handles and the red glue indicators.
If you zoom in closely you can move the PDU until it’s snapped into the rack with 1D glue. The shapes in this stencil have been preset with these options. For this to work, the dropped shape must also have a special behavior set, “Add shape to groups on drop”, in the same Behavior dialog box. This signals that the enclosure shape is a group that will accept dropped shapes into it which is a setting in the Format > Behavior dialog box. Note the dark box that appears around the enclosure. Drag a device (in this case a PDU) and drop it in the enclosure. Drop an enclosure on the page (part SR42UB from the Tripp Lite Isometric stencil). The following steps correspond to the numbers in the image above: Visimation custom Tripp Lite isometric assembly technique We need to trick these shapes into showing the devices inside of the enclosure. Since Visio is a 2D system, it has no way of knowing that an object is physically contained by another object in 3D space. I previously discussed 1D glue for mounting devices in racks, for example, and we’ll revisit that here as we place devices into the enclosed racks in a simulated 3D isometric view. 
In a future article I’ll cover the differences in behavior of the various types of Visio connection points for 1D and 2D glue that can ease the process of assembling a set of parts.
These stencils are available for free download from. In a similar style, we created a custom set of scaled isometric shapes for Tripp Lite products including equipment racks, enclosures, power strips, and power distribution units. The illustration has no scale… the objects are samples from Visio and Visimation stencils drawn in isometric simply to show a variety. The adjacent illustration shows the angles of the Isometric X and Y axes with the Z axis pointing up. Isometric Visio shapes from Visio and Visimation
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