# Creating animation-ready valve/pump SVGs

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-animation-ready-valve-pump-svgs/46172>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [April 29, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-animation-ready-valve-pump-svgs/46172 "2021-04-29T18:49:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-animation-ready-valve-pump-svgs/46172/10 "2022-04-06T15:33:36Z")

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I'm guessing you made this in a third party app like Inkscape?

If it was Inkscape then make sure you are saving it as an Optimised SVG

> [@\[BUG-11342\] Perspective - Can't draw any shapes](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-11342-perspective-cant-draw-any-shapes/20690/22):
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> Not sure if worth mentioning, that if you do use Inkscape, you should save your SVGs as an Optimised SVG and not as an Inkscape SVG. It pulls all the crap out of the file. I use these settings fwiw: Edit: uncheck the top option, don't remove unused ids [image] [image] [image] Edit: maybe should uncheck the convert css to XML option

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