Investigating the intricate relationships between solidstate structure, symmetry, and substitution, moving beyond porphyrins to apply general insights to molecules required these new tools. We found that, owing to the self-similarity of the distortional characteristics of sufficiently simple rigid groups, using a normal-coordinate framework and its underlying pre-computed modes was not necessary for generating meaningful insight from the artwork or the underlying vector diagrams. The general solution of pointgroup-derived symmetry coordinates was compelling as an analysis routine for individual structures.