Icons for Part and Group

[ickby]

Hello Graphic-Wizards,

I'm looking for icons for the 0.17 Part as well as for the normal Group, both use the same one currently. It is the system Icon for a folder, so it looks totally different on every system, but a folder does imho not represent the function of the Part very well. A folder is appropriate for the normal Group, so this would in general fit. However, the icon is not usable for the toolbar button. I think there must be a resemblance between tool button and tree objects, and as I want to introduce a toolbar button for group too it must be a normal icon.

So if anyone could make two nice icon I would be glad and thankful

[DeepSOIC]

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[DeepSOIC]

This one I use in Part-o-magic, feel free to use if it fits
And as for Group icon, IMO the folder one does it quite well.

[chrisb]

And as for Group icon, IMO the folder one does it quite well.

+1

[ickby]

Hello,

thanks for the icons. I like the part one and think I will use it. For group the folder is fine in general, however, currently it is the system icon. Hence it cant be used for the toolbar button. Therefore i would like a freecad style icon that can be used in the tree and the button.

[yorik]

I think you should be able to use the system folder icon as a toolbar icon,no? It's easy to obtain it as a QPixmap I think... Maybe childish, but personally I like having "folders" in the tree

What about joining the folder icon with a part icon, for App Part? That can be done with Qt code, so it can use the system folder icon too. Something like this:

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[pablogil]

Here you have a Part icon I designed time ago by your request... I see you skipped my answer

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For groups, I also like the idea of having the "folder" one, but if you prefer to unify OSs then I can design it.

BTW, if you skipped my answer you also skipped the other icons @agryson and me designed for axis and planes. I have attached them to this post in case you also skipped them

[NormandC]

Here you have a Part icon I designed time ago by your request...

This icon does not represent what the Part container is for. It may be counter-intuitive, but Part is more an assembly than a single part. Part can contain multiple objects including bodies, Part objects, Arch objects, 2D geometry, almost anything.

BTW, if you skipped my answer you also skipped the other icons @agryson and me designed for axis and planes.

Why did you go with such a "flat" projection? An axonometric projection would better convey the 3 dimensions...

[NormandC]

For those who wonder what the axes & planes icons look like:

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I don't understand why the X axis is pointing to the lower left while the Y axis is pointing to the right. It is very confusing because that's not how they are placed in FreeCAD.

Have a look at the axis cross from FreeCAD's 3D view when the view is set to axonometric:

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Why did you go with such a "flat" projection?

EDIT: I just noticed that's how the existing "Origin" icon looks like. Sorry! I wonder where it can be found in the source code?

[NormandC]

Mods, maybe the plane/axis icon discussion should be split off into a separate topic?

I was curious to see what the big commercial CAD packages do for origin/plane/axis icons.

Turns out they have a single plane icon and a single axis icon (some don't show axes). Inventor regroups them under an Origin group, it's a folder icon.

Catia: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OxX3sOzKROE/maxresdefault.jpg
Autodesk Inventor: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dilWO1xSr3Y/maxresdefault.jpg
Solidworks: http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksb ... 44x700.png
PTC Creo: http://www.inneo.co.uk/fileadmin/inneo/ ... tmetal.png
Solid Edge (really old capture): http://www.kisssoft.ch/english/products ... creen2.gif

My question: do we really need separate icons for each of the standard axes and planes? For planes, why not just show a slanted square, like most CAD programs do?

Something simple like this:

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After all, there is a single icon for datum plane.

For the Axis, not sure... A slanted line does not tell much. Maybe if it's contained in a greyed out plane?

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Just throwing things out there. I've never been much of an icon designer.