PartDesign Datum Plane/Line/point icons

[jmaustpc]

Hi Guys
I was playing around with the Assembly branch and I noticed PartDesign datums have no proper Treeview icon so I came up with this idea, and made these.

The Plane/Line/point in these is similar to the tools bar icons, which I am not sure if they are really a good idea because with their blue/red colour scheme, they look like Part primitives or PartDesign shapes, in my opinion.

I thought I would post where I have got to tonight...I will try tomorrow with items an off yellow colour like they are shown in the model window...and see if that look good or not.

But this is where I have go it to at the moment.

Datum_point
16px

PartDesign_Datum_Point_16px.png (679 Bytes) Viewed 5462 times

32px

PartDesign_Datum_Point_32px.png (1.44 KiB) Viewed 5462 times

svg

PartDesign_Datum_Point.svg

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Datum Line
16px

PartDesign_Datum_Line_16px.png (679 Bytes) Viewed 5462 times

32px

PartDesign_Datum_Line_32px.png (1.43 KiB) Viewed 5462 times

svg

PartDesign_Datum_Line.svg

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Datum Plane
16px

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_16px.png (794 Bytes) Viewed 5462 times

32px

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_32px.png (1.77 KiB) Viewed 5462 times

SVG

PartDesign_Datum_Plane.svg

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[ickby]

Hello Jim,

I like the icon idea, however, I have one general remark: they are too detailed. When I'm working with assemblage tries it is already not so easy to distinguish the different entity's, as the icons are fine trained and detailed. I'm not able to differentiate them with a fast look, and that is actually the most important thing with icons. Your datum icons are hard to distinguish because the important message occupy only a small portion of the icon. Also one can't use colors for a quick.overview as most icons mix them, the proposed ones too.

[jmaustpc]

Hi everyone
I tried a few things today, to simplify the theme, and address the issues ickby pointed out.

Firstly if we did similar to the same as I previously did, but I thought what if we made the datum planes in the icons the same as they are in the model window, transparent yellow.

So I tried a 100% edge with about a 50% fill, but I think you will all agree it looks hard to see.
This is what it looks like at 32px

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_2_32px.png (1.62 KiB) Viewed 5421 times

then to simplify I thought maybe we could remove the Y axis

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_3_32px.png (1.26 KiB) Viewed 5421 times

what if we remove the axis cross altogether and just show the plane

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_4_32px.png (597 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

still too hard to see so maybe a black outline? firstly a thin edge

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_5_32px.png (539 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

I tried putting the axis cross on the plane, but then it is hard to see the plane, it could look like just a yellow background.

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_11_32px.png (988 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

so considering all the above I came up with this theme, with some variations.
plane on an angle means that the axis cross needs to be at top left, origin is normally bottom left

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_8_32px.png (1.11 KiB) Viewed 5421 times

so I changed it to this
at16px

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_10_16px.png (499 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

at 32px

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_10_32px.png (805 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

the SVG

PartDesign_Datum_Plane_10.svg

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the matching Datum Line for the above could be

PartDesign_Datum_Line_10_32px.png (779 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

But I think the line should be angled so
at 16px

PartDesign_Datum_Line_11_16px.png (552 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

at 32px

PartDesign_Datum_Line_11_32px.png (1.08 KiB) Viewed 5421 times

the SVG

PartDesign_Datum_Line_11.svg

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and the matching Datum Point
at 16px

PartDesign_Datum_Point_9_16px.png (481 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

at 32px

PartDesign_Datum_Line_9_32px.png (837 Bytes) Viewed 5421 times

and SVG

PartDesign_Datum_Point_9.svg

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this zip file is all the above as well as some working copies and experiments etc., which might be useful to start with, if anyone else wants to have a go.

Datum_Plane.zip

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Jim