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Ahhhhh, you're absolutely right! Thanks again Walt! I have a trial version of AD and it seems like a pretty good tool so I think I'll buy it.

I'm looking at a 2018 tutorial on AD and at about 4:00 in the person shows how they create a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool and add a node to it using the Node tool. When I try to do it and hover over the edge of a rectangle with the Node tool selected, I don't get the squiggly shape that shows that a node is about to be created. After watching AD's Node Tool video and I was able to create a node on a shape I drew with the Pen tool but the video didn't show how to create nodes on shapes created with the shape tools (Rectangle, Ellipse, etc.). Has this capability changed since 2018? If so, what is the proper way to attach a node to a tool created with one of the shape tools? Thanks!

Thank you Walt! This solved my problem.

I'm trying to learn AD by following along with various tutorials on YouTube. In every tutorial, the instructor starts with his or her surface looking like a white piece of paper. But when I create a new (Web) document, it looks like a gray checkerboard. Why doesn't my surface look white like everyone else's? I would expect that this might be addressed in the Basic Operations video "New document with templates" but it's not. Thanks.

I think I've got it figured out. Let me just ask you this. If you release an SVG file (document) in order to work with the individual layers, do you have to "unrelease" the layers (reverse the process) before you export them to a new SVG file? If so, do you do this simply by grouping them or is there a different AD command to accomplish this? The second problem I had was that when I brought the SVG file into Figma, I needed to use "Scale" when resizing it. Thank you again for your help!

Thanks pgraficzny. I'm wondering if part of the problem is that I have three layers and I have to recombine them after I change the color of each? What I mean is this. The SVG logo has three parts, or layers, as I guess they're called. In order to change the color of each layer, I clicked the Edit Document button at the top and then selected each layer in turn and changed its color. But after I did this, I still have these three separate layers. Do I have to do something to them first to combine them all together again into a single document like what I started with and then do the export? For now, I'll just try exporting them as is and see if the problem is with the SVG's dimensions in Figma. Thank you for your help. Your English is just fine. You know much more English than I do Polish so you've got me there.

v_kyr, thank you for your suggestion. I followed your instructions but unfortunately they didn't solve the problem. When I uncheck "set ViewBox" I still don't see the SVG logo in Figma when I copy and paste it into my Figma artboard. The one difference from last time is that when I paste the SVG file now, what I get in Figma is a tiny text element that contains the name of the SVG file itself rather the the contents of the file. I experimented with some of the AD Export settings such as the Preset and Area but this didn't make a difference. I don't see why something so seemingly simple isn't working.

Today is day one with AD and I'm trying to change the color of a logo in an SVG file and then export it out for use in my Figma project. I learned how to change the color of the logo's elements in AD just fine. I then went to File > Export, clicked on the SVG icon in the Export window and entered these parameters: Preset: SVG (for export) Raster (I left blank) Area: Whole document I then clicked the Export button. If I now open that new, exported file in my Chrome browser, I can see that I did indeed change the color. Now typically, if I want to use a logo in SVG format, I can just drag it from Finder into my Figma file and it shows up with no problem. But when I drag this new SVG file in, I don't see the logo at all. Instead all I see are three very tiny blue dots lined up horizontally and then what appears to be a small, blue square below them and to the left. Has anyone here worked with both AD and Figma and know what I did wrong? Thanks!