When you enter a new project in Flare, you see your Stage. The Stage is the working area where you create all your designs, and where you place Artboards.
An Artboard is the top-level node of a Flare hierarchy, and this is where you place all your objects and animations. The Hierarchy is a tree view that shows the parent/child relationships between the items on the stage. So, you have an Artboard, and everything you put into it is its child. You can add items to the hierarchy by adding other objects and making them children of their ancestors.
Each Flare project requires at least one Artboard, but you can create as many as you like.
Flare has two modes of operations: Design and Animate. In Design mode, you ...
