January 12, 2017
by Tibor Lorántfy
modified at January 17, 2017

ARCHICAD GUI Icon Style Guide

ARCHICAD Icon Style Guide is a handbook for both GRAPHISOFT’s Product Designers and ARCHICAD Add-On manufacturers to help maintain a consistent visual appearance for the icons in our products that we want to reserve in the future.
The purpose of this document is to list and detail all the rules that we have established for ARCHICAD 20’s new look and to cover how we work when we design icons for the new UI.

You can download it here.

Since ARCHICAD 20 the preferred source image format of icon resources is SVG. The source SVG images are compiled by the GRAPHISOFT Resource Compiler to native resources.
For better understanding of the GRAPHISOFT Resource Compiler, see a Windows example here or a Macintosh example here.

DG Test Element Icons DialogThe DG_Test example Add-On in API Development Kit contains each element type icons (small and large icons also). You can find the SVG source image files of those icons inside DG_Test/RFIX/Images folder.
So if you need an icon of any element type, don’t hesitate to get it from here!
To help you, I collected the SVG source images of the most important element icons here too:

Wall: Wall Tool large icon Wall Tool large icon
Door: Door Tool large icon Door Tool large icon
Window: Window Tool large icon Window Tool large icon
Column: Column Tool large icon Column Tool large icon
Beam: Beam Tool large icon Beam Tool large icon
Slab: Slab Tool large icon Slab Tool large icon
Stair: Stair Tool large icon Stair Tool large icon
Roof: Roof Tool large icon Roof Tool large icon
Shell: Shell Tool large icon Shell Tool large icon
Skylight: Skylight Tool large icon Skylight Tool large icon
CW: CW Tool large icon CW Tool large icon
Morph: Morph Tool large icon Morph Tool large icon
Object: Object Tool large icon Object Tool large icon
Zone: Zone Tool large icon Zone Tool large icon
Mesh: Mesh Tool large icon Mesh Tool large icon