×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

(OP)
Hi,
How could I resize the Tolbar icons, other then using the "Customize" option? They are too large!
Thanks

RE: Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

Since there are 4 different sizes available on the 'Customize' menu, ranging from 48 x 48 (too large) to 16 x 16 (too small) with two additional sizes in between, 32 x 32 and 24 x 24, I can't imagine that at least one of these will not meet your needs.

Note that I use 24 X 24, but as my eyes get older, I may be forced to move up to 32 X 32 winky smile

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 

RE: Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

(OP)
Thanks a lot!

RE: Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

Are you saying that having the option of selecting from 4 different sizes of icons is NOT an acceptable situation?  Which would then also imply that the 16 x 16 icons are still too large to meet your personal needs, correct?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 

RE: Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

(OP)
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. My answer is "Yes"; I'd like to get smaller Toolbar icons, as small as the Menu icons are..!
I'd like to add more icons on the Toolbar menu. The extra small (16) does not allow me to bring more icons.
Thanks

RE: Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

I'm sorry, but 16 x 16 is as small as we're going to go.  Too many people are already complaining that many of the icons are too hard now to distinguish one from another and as they get smaller, it gets harder and harder to make them differentiable.  Think about it, with a 16 x 16 icon, you have ONLY 256 pixels to create every possible bitmap.  If we were to reduce the icon size down to the next logical size, 12 X 12, that would leave us with only 144 pixels, a reduction in available pixels of nearly 44%, yet all that you would gain is 33% more icons per toolbar.

As for your desire to have Toolbar icons as small as the Menu icons, I'm sorry, but they already are.  The smallest Toolbar icons, 16 x 16, are identical to the smallest Menu icons, which are also 16 x 16.  Don't believe me?  Stop and take a very close look.  If you do, I think you will see that I'm right.

The only thing that I can recommend is that since these icons are based on screen pixels, make sure that your display is set to the highest resolution supported by your display/graphics drive combo.  That way you'll be able to get the maximum number of icons displayed at one time.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 

RE: Toolbar icon size UG/NX5

(OP)
Thank you very much for your time and consideration!

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources