Spinning an object

This is an example of where it would be nice if Storyline had emphasis animations like PowerPoint has.   Long overdue, IMVHO.  Something like this in PowerPoint would take only a few minutes to set up.

You have at least two options--animate this yourself using a bunch of shapes of the same object, having them quickly animate in and out as you move them around an axis.

Or creating in a third-party program as a video and importing in.  Can easily be done in something like PowerPoint (if you don't have a video editor) and then exported out as WMV video.

This thread here provides some options.

Thank you Michael. I have read that thread already before I posted this. I also downloaded and used your example (thank you!) but I could not figure out how to rotate it counterclockwise. I need it to do a couple of rotations clockwise, then switch to do a couple of rotations counterclockwise. You have it set up to go from stop 1 - stop 5. I tried to reverse it and make it go from stop 5 - stop 1 to see if that would make it counterclockwise, but I couldn't get it to work.

That's way cool.  Never would have thought of a circular motion path. +1.

You just need to add a second motion path, rotate it 180 degrees and add a counter. See attached a quick example.

The object spins at the objects center point. Often the turbine/fan images are not square so the hub is not actually centered. 

Here's a tutorial video to show how to create a spinning animation and to get a center point.

You all are too fast. My demo uses the entrance/exit animation as a different way to do it. Although since you're not using separate motion paths, you either have to create other states or a separate shape.

Michael's solution gives you more control. 

Two things on his:

• You can manually enter the values for the size of the motion path on the ribbon
• Make sure to set the object to orient to shape in the path options

Thank you all for your help!