# Perspective large and complex SVG animation tips please **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective, ignition81\ **Created:** [August 27, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-large-and-complex-svg-animation-tips-please/63526 "2022-08-27T08:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23

**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:** [August 31, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-large-and-complex-svg-animation-tips-please/63526/23 "2022-08-31T15:13:28Z")

Here are a couple of posts with good information pertaining to Inkscape. > [@\[BUG-11342\] Perspective - Can't draw any shapes](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-11342-perspective-cant-draw-any-shapes/20690/22): > > 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 > [@Creating optimised SVG in Inkscape results in elements grouped oddly](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-optimised-svg-in-inkscape-results-in-elements-grouped-oddly/40715): > > This is more an informative post about creating SVGs in Inkscape… It started off as a question but then turned into an answer as I worked through it. I have quite a complex SVG for swing bend pipes that connect ports of a key plate together to complete various pipework circuits. As such, i’ve grouped common swing bends together and tried to style them so that they all have the same stroke widths and linecaps. However it seems that in applying some of these settings to groups of objects, it’s i… For relatively simple SVG's here is the way that I do it. > [@Drawing Tools in perspective](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drawing-tools-in-perspective/51407/3): > > SVG’s are the way to do it (they aren’t the only way to do it, but they are probably the best way). You can copy this into a text file, save it as a .svg file and then drag it onto your view, this will give you a blank SVG. \ \