This is a sample
screenshot provided by Eugene Pazhitnov. Note that this was a beta
version and the icon sheet has been cleaned up before final release.Current activity (25 September 2005) Colour Cisco icons and VDX converter.
This is a sample
screenshot provided by Eugene Pazhitnov. Note that this was a beta
version and the icon sheet has been cleaned up before final release.
There are 340 colour icons in this set, covering the full Cisco range, but also generic icons for computers, devices, buildings, people, phones etc. This is also an equivalent SVG set.
This set is now release quality. I'm still interested in any bugs or problems with it, and will keep it up to date as Cisco issues more icons.
Update: New releases of the icon set are being incorporated into Dia 0.95 - now with central connection points. I won't be doing any more independent releases.
Also, a clarification - these icons are in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Cisco have graciously released them into the public domain, and I have done the same, to encourage their use.
In September, Cisco added a new File Engine icon. This is the sole change in release 1.3.
In June, Cisco released 5 new icons: Carrier Routing System, CSM-S, Guard, Detector and Wireless Router. These are incorporated into release 1.2 - there are no other changes.
I am currently working on the new Packet™ icons, which include jet plane, ship, weather balloon and several alternates. There are also some cleanups due.
On 24th March Cisco released 8 new icons: Mobile Access IP, Standing Woman, uMG Series, Unity Express, Gatekeeper, MCU, IOS SLB, plus a more modern Cellular Phone. I have incorporated these into release 1.1 - there were no other changes.
The following 12 black and white icons are not being released as colour: Dot-Dot, DPT, PAD, Router in building, Telecommuter house/router (because they are all easily obtained by other means), Gigabit Switch Router (ATM Tag), Layer 3 Switch, SVX (interchangeable with End office), Voice switch 2, Voice gateway, Workstation (duplicates).
All other black and white icons now have colour versions that should work as drop-in replacements.
A number of small glitches have been fixed compared with previous versions - the clouds now have more connection points, for example. I use this set of images daily, and they work very well.
I've a long list of candidates for icons I'd like: blade server, 1U thin server, DNS/Time/Mail servers, Cisco 650x, CD-ROM, SMSC, MMSC, USB, Bluetooth. I plan to draw some of them after finishing these.
I have Cisco's permission and encouragement to do this: "Please help yourself with the icons. We retain no copyright or restrictions to their use."
To do this, I loaded the original PowerPoint slides into OpenOffice.org, saved them as PostScript, then wrote a little Perl PostScript interpreter that spits the objects out as SVG - with some additional geometry to do clipping, as Dia's SVG can't handle clipping regions. Anyone who wants the code is welcome to it. I wish I could use OOo's SVG output, but it made a mess of most of the fills.
I have now switched to the excellent ps2svg converter - more anon.
Previously, I converted the black and white Cisco standard icons to Dia XML format.
Current release 1.0 on 24 June 2002, based on the 27 March 2002 Cisco set.
There are 139 images for Cisco's current product line and 82 miscellaneous icons, including datacoms and telecoms equipment, computers, people, buildings and the essential fluffy cloud.
Cisco copyright statement: "Cisco Systems Inc. retains no registration or copyrights for the usage of the icons".
Similarly, I place these shapes in the public domain, and I do not retain any rights in them or responsibility for their use.
If you have any comments, contact me at cisco(at)redferni.uklinux.net.
Many thanks to the nice folks at Cisco for making this very useful resource freely available to the network community!
I have also done some map icons based on the ones at http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/carte_routiere/PDF/legende_en.pdf.
The Perl script used to convert them, pstoshape.pl is also available if it's any use to anyone.
For fun, I've converted the supershapes to a Dia diagram. The Perl script that made them is also welcome to anyone who wants it.
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