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Autodesk Icons: Why They Matter and How to Use Them Wisely



How does the Viewer do it?It's creating a font-family whose letters will contain the icons - search for font-family: 'adsk-viewing' in the Viewer's CSS


If you're OK to use one of the icons provided by the Viewer, those are the easiest to use. Once you created your toolbar button, you can just set its icon to the one you want using its name, e.g.:




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Get free Autodesk icons in iOS, Material, Windows and other design styles for web, mobile, and graphic design projects. These free images are pixel perfect to fit your design and available in both PNG and vector. Download icons in all formats or edit them for your designs.


Using the following code you can show a list of all those icons and if you click on them the appropriate class name will be shown as well so you know how to make your HTML element use it - see above image.


It depends! You may only use Autodesk logos or product icons if you have permission and a specific agreement in place with Autodesk. Even if you have permission, always check the requirements on the Autodesk Brand Hub and the How Should I Use Autodesk Trademarks", as those guidelines will still apply to your use of an Autodesk logo or product icon.


We use Pragmatic Praxis Deployment tools for rolling out all software, and we have it take the new icons, change their names to REVT.ico and RevitView.ico, and replace them in that particular folder. We do this for all platforms.


One other thing to keep in mind: Subsequent Point Releases / Updates from Autodesk will reset these back to the Factory icons, so its nice to have an automation tool like PX Tools doing this on your behalf, as ours always redoes the process, after any Point release or software update.


I and others have created new icons and stored them on the local machine, then revised shortcuts to point to those new icons. You can do this manually with a right click on the shortcut, then Properties, then Change Icon.


So, armed with that info, the next thing we need is a better icon, something that looks different each year. The easy answer that Autodesk is too lazy to bother with is simply putting the two digit year in the icon. Thankfully a number of folks have done this and made their icon sets available. I use the Parallax Team icons from Aaron Maller, which include icons for all products from 2016 through 2020 in the current set.


I want to display some icons ( ex : exclamation mark ) on the viewer. My scenario is retrieving some data and display an icon on a particular object accordingly.I could not find any documentation regarding this but found a sample code which uses an extension and then having icons as markups. Is there anyway to do a similar kind of operation without using an extension ??


Hiding geometric constraints is useful when you analyze a design and want to filter the display of geometric constraints. For example, you can choose to display the icons for Parallel constraints only. Next, you might choose to display the icons for Perpendicular constraints only.


ICO extension - image format used to store icons in Windows programs, files and folders; contains two bitmaps: 1) AND bitmap - an image mask (which determines which part of the icon is transparent) and 2) XOR bitmap - contains an icon that is superimposed on the image mask, ICO files can be changed to create your own icons. Icons can be of different sizes (16 16, 32 32, 64 64 pixels, etc.) and contain a different number of colors (16 colors, 32, 64, 128, 256, 16-bit, etc.)


Icon files used on MAC computers and other OS X devices use the ICNS extension. This format is used to display a small image (icon) in OS X Finder that represents the corresponding application. ICNS files support images of various sizes. The size varies from 16x16 to 512x512 pixels. Starting with OS x Mountain Lion, ICNS files can support even large images - 1024x1024 pixels. This format supports both single-bit and eight-bit alpha channels, as well as various stages of images, including folder icons in the open and closed state. 2ff7e9595c


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