Artwork

Here is the artwork that has been created for FreeCAD. Feel free to reuse in other applications. If you would like to contribute with icons, please read the guidelines at the bottom of this page first.

Application Icons

The FreeCAD Icon

File Menu and Toolbar Icons

Edit Menu and Toolbar Icons

Edit > Preferences Sub-menu Icons

View Menu Icons

View > Standard Views Sub-menu and Toolbar Icons

File:View-zoom-all.svg File:View-zoom-selection.svg

View > Draw Style Sub-menu and Toolbar Icons

View > Stereo Sub-menu Icons

View > Zoom Sub-menu Icons

File:View-zoom-border.svg

View > Visibility Sub-menu Icons

View > Workbench Sub-menu Icons

File:Workbench Points.png File:Workbench Reverse Engineering.png File:Workbench Test.png

Tools Menu Icons

Macro Menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Macro-record.svg File:Macro-stop.svg File:Macro-execute.svg

Windows Menu Icons

Help Menu Icons

Tree Icons, Overall GUI

Arch WB: Architecture Menu and Arch Tools Toolbar Icons

Arch WB: Architecture > Utilities Sub-menu Icons

Arch WB: Tree Icons

Draft WB: Draft Menu Icons

File:Draft Polyline.svg

File:Draft PutOnSheet.svg

Draft WB: Draft > Utilities Sub-menu Icons

File:Snap Grid.svg

Draft WB: Draft > Wire Tools Sub-menu Icons

Draft WB: Draft > Snapping Sub-menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Snap Lock.svg File:Snap Midpoint.svg File:Snap Perpendicular.svg File:Snap Grid.svg File:Snap Intersection.svg File:Snap Parallel.svg File:Snap Endpoint.svg File:Snap Angle.svg File:Snap Center.svg File:Snap Extension.svg File:Snap Near.svg File:Snap Ortho.svg File:Snap Dimensions.svg File:Snap WorkingPlane.svg

Draft WB: Draft Menu Icons

File:Draft Polyline.svg

Draft WB: Draft Modification Tools Menu Icons

File:Draft PutOnSheet.svg

Draft WB: Command Bar Icons

Draft WB: Tree Icons

Drawing WB: Toolbar and Menu Icons

File:Drawing--draft-view.svg File:Drawing-landscape.svg File:Drawing-landscape-new.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A0.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A1.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A2.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A3.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A4.svg File:Drawing-portrait-A0.svg File:Drawing-portrait-A1.svg File:Drawing-portrait-A2.svg File:Drawing-portrait-A3.svg File:Drawing-portrait-A4.svg File:Drawing-view.svg File:Drawing-openbrowser.svg File:Drawing-annotation.svg File:Drawing-clip.svg File:Drawing-symbol.svg File:DrawingWorkbench.svg File:Page.svg File:Pages.svg

FEM WB: FEM Menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Fem FemMesh.svg File:Fem Material.svg File:Fem NewAnalysis.svg File:Fem QuickAnalysis.svg File:Fem FemMesh createnodebypoly.svg File:Fem ConstraintPressure.svg File:Fem ConstraintBearing.svg File:Fem ConstraintGear.svg File:Fem ConstraintPulley.svg File:Fem Result.svg File:Fem ResultStress.svg File:Fem AddFemMesh.svg File:Fem AddMaterial.svg File:Fem AddPart.svg File:Fem Purge results.svg File:Fem Frequency.svg File:Fem BeamSection.svg File:Fem ShellThickness.svg File:Fem-box.svg File:Fem-cfd-analysis.svg File:Fem-data-along-line.svg File:Fem-femmesh-clear.svg File:Fem-inp-editor.svg File:Fem-isosurface.svg File:Fem-linearized-stress.svg File:Fem-plane.svg File:Fem-preferences.svg File:Fem-clip.svg File:Fem-clip-scalar.svg File:Fem-constraint-initial-temperature.svg File:Fem-temperature.svg File:Fem-cut.svg File:Fem-cylinder.svg File:Fem-sphere.svg File:Fem-wrap.svg

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File:Fem-add-fem-mesh.png File:Fem-add-material.png File:Fem-add-part.png File:Fem-box.png File:Fem-cfd-analysis.png File:Fem-data-along-line.png File:Fem-femmesh-clear.png File:Fem-femmesh-print-info.png File:Fem-frequency-analysis.png File:Fem-inp-editor.png File:Fem-isosurface.png File:Fem-linearized-stress.png File:Fem-plane.png File:Fem-static-analysis.png File:Fem-thermomechanical-analysis.png File:Fem-preferences.png

Image WB: Toolbar Icons

Inspection WB: Inspection Menu Icons

Meshes WB: Meshes Menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Mesh Import Mesh.svg File:Mesh Export Mesh.svg File:Mesh Harmonize Normals.svg File:Mesh Flip Normals.svg File:Mesh boundary.svg File:Mesh Remove Components.svg File:Mesh Regular Solid.svg File:Mesh cut.svg File:Mesh Curvature Plot.svg

Meshes WB: Analyze Sub-menu Icons

File:Mesh pipette.svg

Meshes WB: Regular Solids Sub-menu Icons

Meshes WB: Tree Icons

File:Tree Mesh.svg

OpenSCAD WB: OpenSCAD Menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Part CreatePrimitives.svg File:Preferences-openSCAD.svg

Part WB: Part Menu Icons

File:Part CreatePrimitives.svg

Part WB: Part > Part Tools Menu Area and Toolbar Icons

Part WB: Part > Primitives Sub-menu, and Solids Toolbar Icons

File:Part CreatePrimitives.svg

Part WB: Part > Create Parametric Primitives Sub-menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Part Polygon Parametric.svg

Part WB: Part > Part Boolean Sub-menu and Toolbar Icons

Part WB: Measure Menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Part Measure Toggle 3d.svg

Part WB: Tree Icons

Part Design WB: Part Design Menu or Toolbar Icons

File:PartDesign Revolve.svg

Part Design Next WB:

File:PartDesign Additive Wedge.svg File:PartDesign Subtractive Cylinder.svg File:PartDesign Subtractive Pipe.svg File:PartDesign Subtractive Prism.svg File:PartDesign Subtractive Torus.svg File:PartDesign Subtractive Wedge.svg File:PartDesignWorkbech.svg

Plot WB: Plot Menu or Toolbar Icons

File:Save.svg File:Axes.svg File:Grid.svg File:Legend.svg File:Labels.svg File:Positions.svg

Points WB: Points Toolbar and Menu Icons

Points WB: Points > Test Sub-menu Icons

File:Test1.svg

Raytracing WB: Raytracing Menu Icons

Raytracing WB: Raytracing > Utilities Sub-menu Icons

File:Raytrace Camera.svg File:Raytrace Part.svg

Raytracing WB: Raytracing > New POV-Ray Project Sub-menu Icons

Raytracing WB: Raytracing > New LuxRender Project Sub-menu Icons

Raytracing WB: Raytracing Toolbar Icons Icons

File:Raytrace Camera.svg

Reverse Engineering WB: REEN Menu and Toolbar Icons

Robot WB: Robot Menu and Toolbar Icons

Ship WB: Ship Design Menu and Toolbar Icons

Ship WB: Ship Weights Menu and Toolbar Icons

File:HydrostaticsIco.png

Sketcher WB: Sketcher Menu and Sketch Toolbar Icons

Sketcher WB: Sketch > Sketcher Geometries Sub-menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Sketcher Polyline.svg File:Sketcher Rectangle.svg

Sketcher WB: Sketch > Sketcher Constraints Sub-menu and Toolbar Icons

File:Constraint ToggleConstraint Driven.svg File:Constraint ToggleConstraint Driving.svg

Sketcher Constraints Icons Not Used

Sketcher WB: Sketch > Sketcher Accelerators Sub-menu and Toolbar Icons

Sketcher WB: Combo View > Elements Icons

TechDraw WB:

File:Techdraw-new-default.svg File:Annotation.svg File:Dimension.svg File:Dimension Angle.svg File:Dimension Diameter.svg File:Dimension Horizontal.svg File:Dimension Length.svg File:Dimension Radius.svg File:Dimension Vertical.svg File:LinkDimension.svg File:Page.svg File:Pages.svg File:PageTemplate.svg File:ProjBottom.svg File:ProjFront.svg File:ProjFrontBottomLeft.svg File:ProjFrontBottomRight.svg File:ProjFrontTopLeft.svg File:ProjFrontTopRight.svg File:ProjGroup.svg File:ProjLeft.svg File:ProjRear.svg File:ProjRight.svg File:ProjTop.svg File:Section.svg File:Symbol.svg

TechDraw WB: actions

File:Drawing-draft-view.svg File:SaveSVG.svg File:Techdraw-annotation.svg File:Techdraw-clip.svg File:Techdraw-clipminus.svg File:Techdraw-clipplus.svg File:Techdraw-draft-view.svg File:Techdraw-hatch.svg File:Techdraw-landscape.svg File:Techdraw-landscape-A0.svg File:Techdraw-landscape-A1.svg File:Techdraw-landscape-A2.svg File:Techdraw-landscape-A3.svg File:Techdraw-landscape-A4.svg File:Techdraw-landscape-new.svg File:Techdraw-new-default.svg File:Techdraw-new-pick.svg File:Techdraw-openbrowser.svg File:Techdraw-portrait-A4.svg File:Techdraw-projgroup.svg File:Techdraw-symbol.svg File:Techdraw-toggleframe.svg File:Techdraw-view.svg File:Techdraw-viewsection.svg

Tree Icons

File:Tree Mesh.svg File:Tree Selectable.svg File:Tree Unselectable.svg

Other/General Icons

Emot icons

File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-angel.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-blush.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-crying.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-devil-grin.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-glasses.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-grin.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-grin-braces.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-kiss.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-plain.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-sad.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-smile.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-smile-big.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-surprise.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Face-wink.svg

File:FreeCAD05 Tango Anaglyph.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Applications-games.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Applications-ristretto.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Dialog-error.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Dialog-warning.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Measure.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Process-stop.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Text-x-python.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Camera-photo.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Preferences-system.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Camera-video.svg File:FreeCAD05 Tango Applications-graphics.svg File:FC Christmas.svg

Splash screens

FreeCAD Icons by their location in source code

From \src\Gui\Icons

File:Debug marker.svg File:Macro-execute.svg File:Macro-record.svg File:Macro-stop.svg File:View-zoom-all.svg File:View-zoom-border.svg File:View-zoom-selection.svg

The Background has been re-sized to a display width of 480 pixels:

From \src\Gui\Icons\ClassBrowser

From \src\Mod\Arch\Resources\icons

From \src\Mod\Arch\Resources\ui

From src\Mod\Assembly\Gui\Resources\icons\actions

File:Axle constraint.svg

From \src\Mod\Draft\Resources\Icons

File:Snap Angle.svg File:Snap Center.svg File:Snap Dimensions.svg File:Snap Endpoint.svg File:Snap Extension.svg File:Snap Grid.svg File:Snap Intersection.svg File:Snap Lock.svg File:Snap Midpoint.svg File:Snap Near.svg File:Snap Ortho.svg File:Snap Parallel.svg File:Snap Perpendicular.svg File:Snap WorkingPlane.svg

From \src\Mod\Draft\Resources\Patterns

From \src\Mod\Drawing\Gui\Resources\Icons

File:Page.svg File:Pages.svg

From \src\Mod\Drawing\Gui\Resources\Icons\Actions

File:Drawing-annotation.svg File:Drawing-clip.svg File:Drawing-landscape.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A0.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A1.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A2.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A3.svg File:Drawing-landscape-A4.svg File:Drawing-landscape-new.svg File:Drawing-openbrowser.svg File:Drawing-portrait-A4.svg File:Drawing-symbol.svg File:Drawing-view.svg

From \src\Mod\Drawing\Templates

File:A3 Landscape.svg File:A3 Landscape ISO7200.svg File:A4 Landscape.svg File:A4 Landscape ISO7200.svg File:A4 Portrait ISO7200.svg

The following image is "A4_Simple.svg":

File:A4 Simple.svg

From \src\Mod\Fem\Gui\Resources\Icons\Actions

File:Fem AddFemMesh.svg File:Fem AddMaterial.svg File:Fem AddPart.svg File:Fem ConstraintBearing.svg File:Fem ConstraintGear.svg File:Fem ConstraintPulley.svg File:Fem FemMesh.svg File:Fem FemMesh createnodebypoly.svg File:Fem Material.svg File:Fem NewAnalysis.svg File:Fem Result.svg File:Fem ResultStress.svg

From \src\Mod\Image\Gui\Resources\Icons

From \src\Mod\Mesh\Gui\Resources\Icons

File:Mesh boundary.svg File:Mesh cut.svg File:Tree Mesh.svg

From \src\Mod\Inspect\Gui\Resources\Icons

From \src\Mod\Material\Gui\Resources\Icons

From \src\Mod\Mesh\Gui\Resources\Icons

File:Mesh boundary.svg File:Mesh Curvature Plot.svg File:Mesh cut.svg File:Mesh Export Mesh.svg File:Mesh Flip Normals.svg File:Mesh Harmonize Normals.svg File:Mesh Import Mesh.svg File:Mesh pipette.svg File:Mesh Regular Solid.svg File:Mesh Remove Components.svg File:Tree Mesh.svg

From \src\Mod\Mesh\Gui\Resources\Icons\RegularSolids

From \src\Mod\MeshPart\Gui\Resources\Icons\Actions

From \src\Mod\OpenSCAD\Gui\Resources\Icons\

From \src\Mod\Part\Gui\Resources\icons\

File:Part CreatePrimitives.svg File:Part Measure Toggle 3d.svg File:Part Polygon Parametric.svg File:Part Workbench.svg

From \src\Mod\PartDesign\Gui\Resources\icons\

From \src\Mod\PartDesign\WizardShaft\

From \src\Mod\Path\Gui\Resources\icons

File:Path-Area-View.svg File:Path-Area-Workplane.svg File:Path-Array.svg File:Path-Axis.svg File:Path-BaseGeometry.svg File:Path-Comment.svg File:Path-Compound.svg File:Path-Contour.svg File:Path-Copy.svg File:Path-Custom.svg File:Path-Datums.svg File:Path-Depths.svg File:Path-Dressup.svg File:Path-Drilling.svg File:Path-FacePocket.svg File:Path-FaceProfile.svg File:Path-Heights.svg File:Path-Holding.svg File:Path-Hop.svg File:Path-Inspect.svg File:Path-Job.svg File:Path-Kurve.svg File:Path-LengthOffset.svg File:Path-LoadTool.svg File:Path-Machine.svg File:Path-MachineLathe.svg File:Path-MachineMill.svg File:Path-Machine-test1.svg File:Path-OperationA.svg File:Path-OperationB.svg File:Path-Plane.svg File:Path-Pocket.svg File:Path-Post.svg File:Path-Profile.svg File:Path-Profile-Edges.svg File:Path-Sanity.svg File:Path-SelectLoop.svg File:Path-Shape.svg File:Path-Simple copy.svg File:Path-Speed.svg File:Path-Stock.svg File:Path-Stop.svg File:Path-Tags.svg File:Path-ToolChange.svg File:Path-Toolpath.svg File:Path-ToolTable.svg

From \src\Mod\Plot\resources\icons

File:Axes.svg File:Grid.svg File:Icon.svg File:Labels.svg File:Legend.svg File:Positions.svg File:Save.svg

From \src\Mod\Points\Gui\Resources\icons

From \src\Mod\Raytracing\Gui\Resources\icons

File:Raytrace Camera.svg File:Raytrace Part.svg

From \src\Mod\ReverseEngineering\Gui\Resources\icons\actions

From \src\Mod\Robot\Gui\Resources\icons

From \src\Mod\Ship\Resources\icons

File:Ship Wieght.svg File:ShipWorkbench.svg

From \src\Mod\Sketcher\Gui\Resources\icons

File:Sketcher ConstrainLock Driven.svg File:Sketcher CreateEllipse.svg File:Sketcher CreateEllipse Constr.svg File:Sketcher Elliptical Arc.svg File:Sketcher Elliptical Arc Constr.svg File:Sketcher Parabolic Arc Constr.svg File:Sketcher ToggleConstraint Driving.svg File:SketcherWorkbech.svg

From \src\Mod\Sketcher\Gui\Resources\icons\small

Files in this folder cannot be uploaded due to the file extension.

From \src\Mod\Spreadsheet\Resources\icons

File:SpreadsheetPropertyController.svg

From \src\Mod\Start\StartPage

File:ArchDesign.png File:Freecad-doc.png File:PartDesign.png

The following images have been re-sized to a display width of 600 pixels:

File:ArchExample.png

File:Background.jpg

File:Banner.jpeg

File:PartDesignExample.png

File:ShipExample.png

From \src\Mod\Web\Gui\Resources\icons\actions

Guidelines

Introduction

A FreeCAD icon is composed of 6 elements which can be remembered easily using the awkward acronym "SALCHO": Stroke, Alignment, Lighting, Color, Highlighting, Outline

Here's a concrete, yet arbitrary example:

An icon that's taken all its vitamins

A	The highlight color is used for this entire surface to indicate light falling from above
B	The obligatory dark outline surrounds the icon shape to provide form contrast
C	Just inside the outline, the highlight stroke (using the highlight color) provides contrast on dark backgrounds
D	This face is primarily the base color, but a light gradient from highlight (top left) to base (bottom right) gives the impression of light falling from above left
E	The highlight here is the base color (one tone down) to give the impression of this being the face furthest from the light
F	This face is like D but goes from Base (top left) to Dark (bottom right), to indicate that this is the face furthest from the light

The following sections explain these elements in a more structured way.

Colors

[Obligatory] FreeCAD uses a palette adapted from the Tango palette. Each main color comes in 4 tones: Highlight, Base, Dark and Outline.

Example of a 4 tone color family (Chameleon)

A selection of some key colors. (See the palette for the full range)

				Use the Yellow tones for tools that create objects.
				Use the Blue tones for tools that modify objects
				Use the Teal tones for view-related tools
				Use the Red tones for Constraint related tools

Why limit myself to these colors?	Restricting the colors to a defined palette helps avoid heterogeneous iconography and improves readability when there are many icons.
How?	Installing the palette is as easy as copying it into your Inkscape palette folder.

Grid & Stroke Width

[Obligatory] FreeCAD Icons are 64px*64px nominal size (Though I like to leave a 2px margin all around to prevent funky antialiasing things from happening on the image edge). When creating or editing an icon, make sure your document size is 64 x 64 with the units being px. This gives you 60px * 60px of useable space.

Stay inside the blue area and everything will work out just fine

It's also strongly recommended to apply at least one grid to the document that has a grid line every pixel and a major grid line every 2 pixels. Feel free to add other grids to help out, but you should have at least that one. You're strokes would then be aligned along the minor grid intersections. (See image)

Strokes should be no thinner than 2px, with rounded caps and corners in most cases. Strokes can be thicker, but aim for a multiple of two to minimise scaling fuzziness.

Orderly grid, all strokes 2px, perfection achieved

Why use this grid and stroke size?	For historical reasons, FreeCAD uses a 64px icon that then gets scaled down. Not ideal, but it adds character. As a result, keeping things aligned to a power of two grid with thicknesses that are powers of two helps to avoid or at least mitigate anti-aliasing issues upon rescaling.
How?	Go to "File > Document Properties" and confirm the width, height and units of your page are correct. Then go to the "Grids" tab and click "New", setting the units to "px", "Spacing X" and "Spacing Y" to 1 and "Major grid line every" to 2

Outline

[Obligatory] Basing yourself on the main color of the icon, ensure that there is a dark outline (of 2px as mentioned earlier). This works in union with the highlight to ensure good form contrast on multiple background tones.

Wow, much clear, so contrast

Why is the outline needed?	The outline is the skeleton on which everything else hangs by adding form contrast. Using the Outline color or the Dark color depends on the situation, but without this line, the range of backgrounds on which the icon is visible gets drastically limited
How?	Simply add an external stroke of 2px around every part of the icon that will be adjacent to the background color. In the case of a donut shape for example, you would also do the interior hole. Snap your path's nodes to the grid whenever possible, aiming for the minor grid intersections.

Highlight

[Strongly Advised] Using the Highlight color, add an internal stroke (again, 2px) to help make that outline pop. On dark backgrounds, it's this highlight that will be providing the form to the icon.

That highlight will save our socks on a dark background.

Why use the highlight?	The highlight works in unison with the outline to improve form contrast - especially on dark backgrounds. It is never a bad idea, but if you don't have the space (on a thin line for example) you can opt out of it provided you have ensured enough contrast between the main color and the outline
How?	Just like the outline, simply trace a stroke of 2px around the internal side of the outline, snapping nodes to the grid when possible, aiming for the minor grid intersections.

Lighting

[Optional] As per Tango guidelines, if you're adding a gradient lighting effect, try to make it look like the light is coming from the top left. This is done by adding the highlight color up top left and the Base or Dark color bottom right (notice that I haven't played around trying to use a non-palette color)

Subtle but effective.

Why use lighting?	Lighting is just another way to tie icons together and ensure that there are varying levels of 'value' to improve their readability. Provided the outline and highlight are present though, it can be considered optional
How?	Set the fill to be a linear or a radial gradient. (Available in the stroke and fill settings). Remember that using "F2" to set direct select, you can move the nodes of the gradient around to make sure they are at the right angle.

Closing Remarks

That's it - that's all there is to making sure that there's a unified look to all the icons. Remember: SALCHO Stroke, Alignment, Lighting, Color, Highlight, Outline

Here's a collection of tips to be able to check your work:

Checking Size

Inkscape has a super handy tool to check your icon at various sizes. Go to "View > Icon Preview..." and it'll show you previews of your icon resized to 16,24,32 and 64px!

Checking Your Outline

1. Put your icon on a big rectangle that is the same color as the darkest color in your icon.

2. Still looks OK? Great! Go to step 3. If not, see the frowny face

3. Do the same but this time using the lightest color.

4. Still looks OK? Great! Outlines and highlights have been used appropriately!

My icon is barely visible!

You have poor form contrast. Double check the outline and highlight, one of these is probably missing or improperly applied.

Checking Your Contrast

1. Get your icon and export it to either .png or .jpg, whichever you prefer

2. Open an image program and change it to grayscale. In GIMP for example you would go to "Image > Mode > Grayscale" (This is excellent for testing for color blind users)

3. Can you still clearly make out any internal details? Great! You have good contrast!

I can't make out all the wonderful detail!

The colors you've chosen have poor value contrast. Try using colors that are further apart in your 4 tone palette. i.e. A Highlight green beside a highlight yellow will be difficult to see, knock one of those colors down to Base or Dark.