Best Practices for Creating a New Icon?

[MSchille-1994]

I am creating custom commands to insert blocks for our office standards.  Part of this is creating new icons for each command.  What is the best practice for this?  When you create a new command there is no image to edit so you have to chose one to start with.  When I do that, am I supposed to export it and then attach it at the bottom where the small image and large image file paths are at, or just click the Save button in the editor and hope it sticks?  

I get mixed results where once I get going an icon will resort back to a previous one I created and I cannot update it to a new one.

[AVCPlugins · Accepted solution]

Icons are stored inside your customization file. CUIX is a regular ZIP archive. Total Commander opens it as a folder. You just need to replace the PNG-files with the same name (with AutoCAD turned off)

[steve_MonkeyFlow · Accepted solution]

Its pretty easy to make your own icons, I do it with SnagIt which you can use on a trial or its pretty cheap to buy.

You can use AutoCAD / Google images to create, then simply grab screen images with SnagIt and save to PNG.

Be sure to make them in 32x32 and 16x16 pixels.

If you update the icon and want to keep the same name open the CUIX file with a ZIP editor and drag / drop your updated PNG's over than restart AutoCAD.

[steve_MonkeyFlow]

Try using 7 zip as a free ZIP tool.