Brian Payne (on Twitter) has been updating Revit icons to have small pieces of text on them indicating the years, since Autodesk stopped updating the icon after 2017. (I find this amusing, since i know i was super vocal in complaining about the updated icon... But it wasnt that they changed year to year that i was complaining about, it was the slayer/megadeath looking origami snafu in 2016*, that i was complaining about).
Anyway, I have been using Brian's icons, and they have been great. While working on a clients deployments for an office wide rollout, i used them as well. They asked if i could move the text to the top instead of the bottom. Simple enough, but- since i had just downloaded the PNG and ICO from Brian- i recreated them so i could make that change. Figured id make the R a bit smaller as well, to give the year more room to get larger.
I didnt use a real icon creeator software, so- even though i told it to make an icon at all the sizes windows uses- im sure it looks like trash in small icon modes.
But if anyone wants the years to be labeled in their shortcuts or Quick Launches, here they are:
*Funny story about the Origami icons, by the way: Back in the Windows 7 days, we had a way to auto pin icons to the Quick Launch / Taskbar, when we were installing platforms. So at yearly deployment time, when i removed old versions of software (like AutoCAD), and installed new ones, i would pin the new shortcut to the taskbar so folks knew it was there. The year of the wild origami, we actually got a crapload of Helpdesk requests, the day after deployments. People were like *YOU TOOK MY AUTOCAD AWAY AND I NEED IT TODAY OMG!!!!"
They didnt recognize the origami icon. I (personally) think that falls under *you had one job.* lol.
That said, i really like the simpler icons from the last few years. But since i keep them all pinned next to each other, having the year on them is nice. Less of an issue for me, since- as they are pinned- they dont shift order. But for folks that DONT pin them, its doubly nice to have.
Anyway, I have been using Brian's icons, and they have been great. While working on a clients deployments for an office wide rollout, i used them as well. They asked if i could move the text to the top instead of the bottom. Simple enough, but- since i had just downloaded the PNG and ICO from Brian- i recreated them so i could make that change. Figured id make the R a bit smaller as well, to give the year more room to get larger.
I didnt use a real icon creeator software, so- even though i told it to make an icon at all the sizes windows uses- im sure it looks like trash in small icon modes.
But if anyone wants the years to be labeled in their shortcuts or Quick Launches, here they are:
*Funny story about the Origami icons, by the way: Back in the Windows 7 days, we had a way to auto pin icons to the Quick Launch / Taskbar, when we were installing platforms. So at yearly deployment time, when i removed old versions of software (like AutoCAD), and installed new ones, i would pin the new shortcut to the taskbar so folks knew it was there. The year of the wild origami, we actually got a crapload of Helpdesk requests, the day after deployments. People were like *YOU TOOK MY AUTOCAD AWAY AND I NEED IT TODAY OMG!!!!"
They didnt recognize the origami icon. I (personally) think that falls under *you had one job.* lol.
That said, i really like the simpler icons from the last few years. But since i keep them all pinned next to each other, having the year on them is nice. Less of an issue for me, since- as they are pinned- they dont shift order. But for folks that DONT pin them, its doubly nice to have.
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