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I have just purchased Express Animate Master edition with the intention of using this package for simple block diagram animation, as a step up on PowerPoint.
I was surprised that there seem to be no preset shapes other than rectangles and ellipses.
Most diagrams require regular triangles/polygons and rounded rectangles.
I can construct these, of course, but am hampered by the fact that although the overall object handles snap to grid, I cannot get individual nodes to snap.
And there seem to be no tools to align objects/nodes with each other, or modifiers to constrain node moves in x or y directions while dragging with the cursor.
I have not found answers to these points in the help or the video tutorials.
It looks like I will have to create other basic shapes as bitmaps in another package and import them. Can I import vector (e.g. SVG) images?
Sorry for the noob questions, but maybe someone could tell me if I'm missing something, and if not, suggest workarounds.
Cheers,
Alan
Range of Shape Primitives seems limited
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Hi rcf,
Thanks for the detailed reply - it's very helpful. I now have a better grasp of the program's capabilities.
As you point out, the built-in symbol generation is not particularly useful, and I am happy to generate the media content elsewhere - in my case Affinity Designer. That actually makes more sense, as most of my artwork starts in 'Affinity world'.
However, it still seems odd that while the inbuilt drawing scheme works in a vector form, the program cannot actually import vector images (such as .svg).
I'm looking forward to incorporating Express Animate into my workflow.
Thanks once again,
Alan