How to Make an Animated Button for Swishmax
Buttons can be created using the ‘Insert Button’ icon on the ‘Insert’ Toolbar or by converting an existing object into a button by selecting Modify | Convert to Button on the main Menu. This second option is the method illustrated in this tutorial.
1. Start a New empty movie (File Menu | New). Create a red circle using the ‘Ellipse’ vector tool from the Toolbar on the ‘Layout’ Panel (hold down the Shift key on your keyboard while you drag out the shape to make a perfect circle)
2. On the Main Menu bar, select Modify | Convert to Button
3. After pressing the (+) icon next to the Button object, the ‘Outline’ Panel should look like this:
4. Open the ‘Button’ Panel and check the options for ‘Has separate … state’ (over/down/hit)
5. Select the ellipse in the Over State and press Control+C to copy, and Control+V to paste a duplicate into this Over State
6. Open the ‘Shape’ Panel and select “None” for the Fill type. Give this shape a Line Width of “1″ with a Line Color of Black, and then right-click on the Ellipse in the ‘Outline’ Panel and select Convert | Convert to Sprite.
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Command Sequence
Command: DONUT
Specify inside diameter of donut <0.5000>: (pick any two points to define a diameter or enter the exact length)
Specify outside diameter of donut <1.0000>: (pick any two points to define a diameter or enter the exact length)
Specify center of donut or <exit>: (pick P1)
Specify center of donut or <exit>: 
(to end or continue to pick for more doughnuts)
As an alternative to picking two points or entering a value for the diameters, you could just hit to accept the default value. Most AutoCAD commands that require user input have default values. They always appear in triangular brackets like this <default value>.
Curiously enough AutoCAD doesn’t seem to mind if you make the inside diameter of a donut larger than the outside diameter, try it and see.
