I used numeric settings in the 3-D Rotations menu (red box below) to rotate the Rectangle on the second slide (the up/down arrows rotate in increments of 10º – you can enter values directly).The Rectangle has a Depth of 0.5 pts – this (or some other 3D property) is required so that the Rectangle is recognized as a 3D object on the first slide.I applied a Morph transition to the second slide. I put a Rectangle on a slide, duplicated the slide and applied a 3D rotation (an X-rotation of 60º – more about this later).Here’s a simple example showing the rotation of a Rectangle: NOTE: You may want to review a previous post wherein I attempted to discover the details of Morph, including various shortcomings and anomalies. In this post, I take advantage of the fact that Morph animates 3D rotations.

Other changes (e.g., Fill color) result in a fade effect. Morph animates changes in size, position, rotation and to a limited extent, shape. Morph is a Slide transition that animates changes in objects from one slide to another.

This post demonstrates the use of Morph to create the opening and closing of doors, gates and the like – useful visual metaphors for introduction, discovery and access. More recently, PowerPoint has introduced the capability to import and animated 3D “models” but these “new” 3D objects can’t be created in PowerPoint. NOTE: In this post, I am referring to “old” 3D – the ability to make a limited kind of 3D object that has been part of PowerPoint since 2003. The introduction of the Morph transition opens up some animation possibilities not previously available: the rotation of 3D objects.

Rotate model in simplify 3d