Toolset picture files.

[Sebastiaan]

Hi,

 

In 2018 I remade my custom workspace based on the Spotlight workspace. I have a lot of custom tools, shortcuts and menus. Now in 2019 there are new toolsets such as rigging and event design. 

 

I altered my workspace to have the same layout for the toolsets. However I would also like to have the same toolset pictures in my workspace. They seem to be hidden in the program so I cannot find them. And using a screenshot makes for a very blurry image. 

 

Would it be possible to make these toolset images available to those of us with custom workspaces? 

 

Sebastiaan

[Nicolas Goutte]

With a high probability they are in a VWR file, e.g. Vectorworks.vwr.

 

http://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/Vectorworks_VWR_Resources

Edited September 18, 2018 by Nicolas Goutte

[Sebastiaan]

Any idea on where I can find these files? searching .wvr gives no results on my mac

[Sebastiaan]

I see now .wvr are within .vwlibrary files. Now to find where the images are...

[Sebastiaan]

Anyone has any Idea? I can find lots of tool images, however not the general toolsets ones. Maybe VWX can make these availible?

 

 

[Nicolas Goutte]

Then I have no idea, where you could find them, in an easy way. (My colleague has no idea either.)

[Robert Anderson]

Mac is different from Windows. 

 

NOTE: The following procedure can corrupt Vectorworks if you do it incorrectly. Proceed at your own risk.

 

The Vectorworks app is a "package" file. Right click the Vectorworks App icon and choose "Show Package Contents". Vectorworks will open up a folder showing its contents. Warning: You do not want to change anything in this folder. Open up the Resources folder, and there will be a file (a big one) called Vectorworks.vwr. Option-drag a copy of this file to your desktop and close the Vectorworks App package window (whew!)

 

Change the name of the desktop "Vectorworks.VWR" file to "Vectorworks.ZIP". It will turn into a folder. Open this folder up and have at it. Unless I miss my guess, the stuff you're looking for is in the subfolder /Images/Tools/. 

[Andy Broomell]

Take a look through this thread:

 

https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/51749-add-spotlight-to-designer-workspace-2018/

 

As of 2018 they weren't accessible, and haven't been provided upon request, but I haven't checked in 2019 personally.

[Sebastiaan]

Indeed cannot find them in the vectorworks.app package either 😞

 

[Andy Broomell]

If anyone can help, @Jim Wilson can! 😃

[Robert Anderson]

I took a look at the workspace (.VWW) files. It looks like all the toolset icons are directly stored as base64-encoded ASCII. It's been quite a while since I played with base64 encoding.  I copied and pasted some of the encoded text and used the MacOS Terminal command line to convert to an icon. Here's my result 🙂 :

 

It looks like my icon has been hit by Hurricane Florence. 

 

Anyway, the raw data is all there, and it's a single line in the Terminal editor to convert a base64 file. If you have all of it, that is. For more on this, see:

 

https://drewsymo.com/2016/05/09/simple-base64-encode-decode-on-mac-osx-linux-with-openssl/

 

[Sebastiaan]

57 minutes ago, Robert Anderson said:

I took a look at the workspace (.VWW) files. It looks like all the toolset icons are directly stored as base64-encoded ASCII. It's been quite a while since I played with base64 encoding.  I copied and pasted some of the encoded text and used the MacOS Terminal command line to convert to an icon. Here's my result 🙂 :

 

It looks like my icon has been hit by Hurricane Florence. 

 

Anyway, the raw data is all there, and it's a single line in the Terminal editor to convert a base64 file. If you have all of it, that is. For more on this, see:

 

https://drewsymo.com/2016/05/09/simple-base64-encode-decode-on-mac-osx-linux-with-openssl/

 

Hey this is working! didn't use terminal but found a online tool that decodes and give the pic as download http://base64online.org/decode/#

Both the low res as the retina picture are present in the code. 

 

Learned something new and have what I want, thank you very much!

 

[Andy Broomell]

3 minutes ago, Sebastiaan said:

Hey this is working! didn't use terminal but found a online tool that decodes and give the pic as download http://base64online.org/decode/#

Both the low res as the retina picture are present in the code. 

 

Learned something new and have what I want, thank you very much!

 

 

Want to share them? 😁

[Sebastiaan]

7 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:

 

Want to share them? 😁

Sure! These are the pics for rigging and event design. They where the ones I was looking for.

[E|FA]

I uploaded icons from VW Architect 2022 here:

 

 

[Juliensv]

Since the toolset icons are decidedly not located in the app package, and since nobody else has done it, I took the liberty of decoding all the Base 64 icons from the workspace files. It does boggle the mind somewhat that these are not just available as a drop-down or something when creating a new toolset.

 

Here they are individually, as well as in a zip. Hope they are useful...

(Updated zip file in thread further down)

Edited January 3, 2022 by Juliensv
Updated zip file

[E|FA]

Thanks.  You may need to rename the ___(2).png files to ___@2x.png to get them to work.

[Juliensv]

On 12/30/2021 at 2:18 PM, E|FA said:

Thanks.  You may need to rename the ___(2).png files to ___@2x.png to get them to work.

 

Got it! All renamed properly so they can work.

Toolset Icons.zip

[Mark Aceto]

I think the filename actually has to be "__@2X@2x.png" to work:

However, even after changing the filename, I get the following error message:

Even though the file is the correct pixels and, presumably, DPI:

 

[StefanoT]

Adding 2 more to@Juliensvzip, from the Architect-BIM workspace.

Some localised VW version are distributed with customised ToolSet icons (rather ugly in my opinion, @zeno do you know why?!), something that should be really deprecated by Vectorworks Inc. since it just adds visual clutter and inconsistency between software and help/tutorials/etc and between international and local versions.

 

 

 

 

 

[E|FA]

Here is a Zip file with the 2023 Tool icons, as well as the Toolset icons posted by others above.  See also https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/62683-streamdeck-integration/&do=findComment&comment=448015

 

VW 2023 Icons.zip

[Mark Aceto]

I can't tell if these ConnectCAD icons are actually retina, and I have no idea what the filenames should be (I can only right-click on the thumbnail to download "Unknown"):

 

 

Cable Routes definitely doesn't look Retina.

 

[Mark Aceto]

3 minutes ago, Mark Aceto said:

 

Cable Routes definitely doesn't look Retina.

 

Narrator: it's not.

 

The dimension for Retina has to be N x 40

 

 

Time to keep stabbing in the dark... 

[Mark Aceto]

Retina icons attached:

 

[Mark Aceto]

I can only get one of these to stick (not Layout or Cable Routes):