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&lt;strong&gt;Original&amp;nbsp;Article Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;March 16, 2006&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;
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Now here&amp;#39;s a short little article that explains how you can add icons to your new tools in MicroStation v8 XM Edition. Note that this article is based upon version 08.09.02.12 
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MicroStation V8 XM Edition is now a Windows compliant application which allows you to user icon file (&lt;em&gt; *.ico&lt;/em&gt; ) for your icons. An alternate method is to create a bitmap image outside of MicroStation with any kind of image editing software such as Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Paint&lt;/em&gt; program. Either way you will need to generate the icons outside of MicroStation.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you plan on creating just a couple of icons, you can probably just &lt;em&gt;Paint&lt;/em&gt; or something similar. On the other hand, if you plan on creating several hundred icons, you might want to consider purchasing a proper icon editor to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
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OK &amp;ndash; so what&amp;rsquo;s involved in creating an icon and getting it onto a tool? Let&amp;rsquo;s take a look.&lt;br /&gt;
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The remainder of this article assumes that you&amp;rsquo;ve imported an old pre-XM Settings Manager file or have created tools that are in need of icons. From the &lt;em&gt;Customize&lt;/em&gt; dialog, navigate to the &lt;em&gt;Tools&lt;/em&gt; tab and drill into the &lt;em&gt;User Tools&lt;/em&gt; until you locate the tool that needs an icon. Direct your sight to the &lt;em&gt;General Settings&lt;/em&gt; portion of the dialog and notice that the icon appears as a wrench. This indicates that the tool does not have an icon associated with it.&lt;br /&gt;
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Open the user tool you wish to select an icon for as listed below on the user tool foe &amp;ldquo;linear dimensions&amp;rdquo;. If you look at the lower section where the properties are, under the general settings you will see the current icon being used for this tool. There should be a browse button next to the actual icon. 
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Select the &lt;em&gt;browse&lt;/em&gt; button which is indicated with the three little dots and the &lt;em&gt;Define Icon for Tool&lt;/em&gt; dialog will open. This dialog will let you look for and import icons from these possible locations:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
- Applications&lt;br /&gt;
- Current Design File&lt;br /&gt;
- Import Selected Icons&lt;br /&gt;
- Import Selected Bitmaps 
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In this example, I&amp;rsquo;m selecting the icon that&amp;rsquo;s delivered with MicroStation&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Place Text&lt;/em&gt; tool. 
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Once &lt;em&gt;OK&lt;/em&gt; is selected, the chosen icon is affixed to the user tool as shown below. 
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As you can see, attaching icons to your tools is easy, flexible and fun! 
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</description></item><item><title>Adding icons to your tools </title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/1101/adding-icons-to-your-tools/revision/2</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:00:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:be5c2dcf-99a2-4c79-aedc-16973b68e52b</guid><dc:creator>Hannah Blye</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/1101/adding-icons-to-your-tools#comments</comments><description>Revision 2 posted to [Archived] AskInga Wiki by Hannah Blye on 6/20/2008 3:00:15 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Original&amp;nbsp;Article Date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;March 16, 2006&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;p&gt;
Now here's a short little article that explains how you can add icons to your new tools in MicroStation v8 XM Edition. Note that this article is based upon version 08.09.02.12 
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&lt;div style="border-bottom: #cccccc 1pt solid"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;
MicroStation V8 XM Edition is now a Windows compliant application which allows you to user icon file (&lt;em&gt; *.ico&lt;/em&gt; ) for your icons. An alternate method is to create a bitmap image outside of MicroStation with any kind of image editing software such as Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Paint&lt;/em&gt; program. Either way you will need to generate the icons outside of MicroStation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you plan on creating just a couple of icons, you can probably just &lt;em&gt;Paint&lt;/em&gt; or something similar. On the other hand, if you plan on creating several hundred icons, you might want to consider purchasing a proper icon editor to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
OK &amp;ndash; so what&amp;rsquo;s involved in creating an icon and getting it onto a tool? Let&amp;rsquo;s take a look.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The remainder of this article assumes that you&amp;rsquo;ve imported an old pre-XM Settings Manager file or have created tools that are in need of icons. From the &lt;em&gt;Customize&lt;/em&gt; dialog, navigate to the &lt;em&gt;Tools&lt;/em&gt; tab and drill into the &lt;em&gt;User Tools&lt;/em&gt; until you locate the tool that needs an icon. Direct your sight to the &lt;em&gt;General Settings&lt;/em&gt; portion of the dialog and notice that the icon appears as a wrench. This indicates that the tool does not have an icon associated with it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Open the user tool you wish to select an icon for as listed below on the user tool foe &amp;ldquo;linear dimensions&amp;rdquo;. If you look at the lower section where the properties are, under the general settings you will see the current icon being used for this tool. There should be a browse button next to the actual icon. 
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Select the &lt;em&gt;browse&lt;/em&gt; button which is indicated with the three little dots and the &lt;em&gt;Define Icon for Tool&lt;/em&gt; dialog will open. This dialog will let you look for and import icons from these possible locations:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
- Applications&lt;br /&gt;
- Current Design File&lt;br /&gt;
- Import Selected Icons&lt;br /&gt;
- Import Selected Bitmaps 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%"&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/291Pic2.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
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In this example, I&amp;rsquo;m selecting the icon that&amp;rsquo;s delivered with MicroStation&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Place Text&lt;/em&gt; tool. 
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Once &lt;em&gt;OK&lt;/em&gt; is selected, the chosen icon is affixed to the user tool as shown below. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%"&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/291Pic4.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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As you can see, attaching icons to your tools is easy, flexible and fun! 
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</description></item><item><title>Adding icons to your tools </title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/1101/adding-icons-to-your-tools/revision/1</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:58:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:be5c2dcf-99a2-4c79-aedc-16973b68e52b</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/1101/adding-icons-to-your-tools#comments</comments><description>Revision 1 posted to [Archived] AskInga Wiki by Anonymous on 5/30/2008 3:58:07 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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Now here's a short little article that explains how you can add icons to your new tools in MicroStation v8 XM Edition. Note that this article is based upon version 08.09.02.12
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom: #cccccc 1pt solid"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
MicroStation V8 XM Edition is now a Windows compliant application which allows you to user icon file (&lt;em&gt; *.ico&lt;/em&gt; ) for your icons. An alternate method is to create a bitmap image outside of MicroStation with any kind of image editing software such as Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Paint&lt;/em&gt; program. Either way you will need to generate the icons outside of MicroStation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you plan on creating just a couple of icons, you can probably just &lt;em&gt;Paint&lt;/em&gt; or something similar. On the other hand, if you plan on creating several hundred icons, you might want to consider purchasing a proper icon editor to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
OK &amp;ndash; so what&amp;rsquo;s involved in creating an icon and getting it onto a tool? Let&amp;rsquo;s take a look.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The remainder of this article assumes that you&amp;rsquo;ve imported an old pre-XM Settings Manager file or have created tools that are in need of icons. From the &lt;em&gt;Customize&lt;/em&gt; dialog, navigate to the &lt;em&gt;Tools&lt;/em&gt; tab and drill into the &lt;em&gt;User Tools&lt;/em&gt; until you locate the tool that needs an icon. Direct your sight to the &lt;em&gt;General Settings&lt;/em&gt; portion of the dialog and notice that the icon appears as a wrench. This indicates that the tool does not have an icon associated with it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Open the user tool you wish to select an icon for as listed below on the user tool foe &amp;ldquo;linear dimensions&amp;rdquo;. If you look at the lower section where the properties are, under the general settings you will see the current icon being used for this tool. There should be a browse button next to the actual icon.
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&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%"&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/291Pic1.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Select the &lt;em&gt;browse&lt;/em&gt; button which is indicated with the three little dots and the &lt;em&gt;Define Icon for Tool&lt;/em&gt; dialog will open. This dialog will let you look for and import icons from these possible locations:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
- Applications&lt;br /&gt;
- Current Design File&lt;br /&gt;
- Import Selected Icons&lt;br /&gt;
- Import Selected Bitmaps
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%"&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/291Pic2.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
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In this example, I&amp;rsquo;m selecting the icon that&amp;rsquo;s delivered with MicroStation&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;Place Text&lt;/em&gt; tool.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%"&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/291Pic3.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Once &lt;em&gt;OK&lt;/em&gt; is selected, the chosen icon is affixed to the user tool as shown below.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%"&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
		&lt;tr&gt;
			&lt;td align="top" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="/askIngaPics/291Pic4.jpg" border="0" align="left" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;
As you can see, attaching icons to your tools is easy, flexible and fun!
&lt;/p&gt;
Ask Inga Article #291
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