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Hi @pmartick. I believe that most (if not all) of the internal images within Inventor that we have access to from the Inventor API are in that same IPictureDisp format. The document thumbnail is that format, and the ribbon tool buttons also use that same format for their large and small icons. I used to use a VBA macro to extract the button icons from existing Inventor tool buttons, so that I could slightly alter them then reuse them as button icons for my own custom buttons, which ran some of my VBA macros. I just used to save them out as .bmp files though. It was much easier to do from VBA at the time than it was from iLogic. However, I'm steering away from VBA as much as possible now though, due to the related security issues, which is why Inventor no longer installs the VBA Editor with Inventor. You can also just create your own icon images from scratch though, if you are aware of the size restrictions, naming conventions, and file location requirements. There are several other articles here in the forums, in users blogs, and else where about folks using various other software to generate tool button icon graphics. (Link1, Link2)
Wesley Crihfield
(Not an Autodesk Employee)