CAD Icons for Engineering & Technical Software

If you’re building advanced CAD, CAM, or CAE software, every icon must earn its place. Our custom CAD icons are designed for clarity, speed, and technical accuracy, supporting engineers, designers, and operators working in high-stakes environments.

From global engineering suites to specialist tools for marine, electrical, or aerospace design, we’ve crafted tens of thousands of icons to simplify complex UIs and reduce user fatigue. Whether you’re replacing outdated legacy icons or designing a new platform from scratch, we help you create consistency, enhance usability, and scale with confidence.

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Enterprise CAD Design Software Icons for Hexagon Group

Custom Software UI Icons for V-Ray CAD Plugin

Pharmaceutical Icons Pharma UI Icons for Thermofisher Scientific

Custom Google Material Icons for Aveva CAD Software

We design high-performance UI icons for CAD and engineering software used in industries like manufacturing, marine, aviation, and defence.

Bespoke CAD Icons Trusted ByGlobal Brands & Tech Industries

We design icon systems for some of the most technically demanding sectors, where clarity, speed, and usability are essential. Whether your users are designing ships, managing infrastructure, or modelling complex 3D environments, we help make your UI intuitive and efficient.

Our CAD and engineering icon sets are trusted across:

Aerospace & Defence – from naval design to secure mission software
Engineering & Manufacturing – CAD/CAM/CAE toolkits at scale
Automotive & Electrical – schematic and wiring design software
Architecture & Construction – icons for modelling and 3D workflows
Energy & Utilities – monitoring, control, and planning tools

These industries demand not just great design, but deep attention to workflow logic, icon hierarchy, and technical accuracy. That’s why we work closely with product teams and subject matter experts to ensure every icon serves a purpose, whether it’s guiding users through complex schematics, differentiating tool modes, or reducing cognitive load in data-heavy interfaces.

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No matter how technically challenging, Creative Freedom always produces professionally designed icons, and delivers on time. They have delivered multiple asset types, from UI Icons, to App Icons, Diagrams and other creative assets.
They take the time to understand our needs and always deliver to our very precise technical specifications, Which is why we have been working with them for the past 10 years, and will continue long into the future.”

Riccardo Taffarello, Head of UX – Aveva

i2 engaged with Adam and Creative Freedom to create a new set of 2D & 3D icons in SVG for use within our investigative/analysis products.
These icons needed to represent real world items. Adam’s team of icon designers produced some wonderful designs that were iterated over easily and quickly using Icon Manager.
It was a pleasure to work with them on this year-long project. I highly recommend them to others, and I’m sure we will use them again in the future.”

Mark Bingley, UX Design Lead – i2 Group

Why Clients Choose Creative Freedom’s CAD Icons

When developing large, complex CAD or engineering platforms, many teams find their icon design process starts to break down. Without clear oversight, it’s easy for inconsistencies, duplicate assets, or version errors to creep in, especially when working across distributed teams, tight timelines, or evolving specifications.

What many clients experience, before coming to us:

Inconsistent icon quality — multiple freelancers, unclear briefs & no visual standards. We solve this with an optional Icon Style Document and tight internal QA across our experienced team.
Slow delivery — relying on a single designer can stall your timeline. We scale fast by drawing on a pool of 10+ professional icon designers used to working together.
Lack of industry knowledge — generic icons that miss technical nuance. Our team has worked on many platforms including marine, CAD, defence, and electrical design — we speak your language.
Low confidence in freelancers — will they be available next month? Can they scale? Our long-term clients, like Aveva, Hexagon, and Zuken, trust us to deliver, year after year.
Chaotic review processes — endless email chains, lost comments & no version control. Our clients regularly tell us Icon Manager “changed everything” — making approvals and collaboration fast, visual & painless.

Unrivalled Experience, Capacity & Icon Manager

Our solution combines two decades of enterprise-level experience with a flexible, scalable team, including over 10 icon designers we can deploy to ramp up production when needed. Every icon we create is checked against your specifications for clarity, function & consistency, and every project is supported by our bespoke management tool: Icon Manager.

Icon Manager offers full transparency, giving you a live window into the entire design process, from concept to final delivery. You can monitor progress, view stats at a glance, and log in from any location (desktop or mobile) to approve or comment on icons in real-time. Every version and comment is recorded, making stakeholder alignment and quality control effortless, no review spreadsheets, no updating shared documents, no lost feedback and no guesswork.

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We deliver custom icons with Icon Manager, our bespoke project management and collaboration software, that transforms and simplifies all aspects of the icon design process.

Icon Manager – Unleashing the full potential of teamwork

Working with creative freedom was fun and effective, made better by possibly the most efficient project management website I have yet to work with (Icon Manager). The project was delivered on time in full and the creative freedom team were very flexible in accommodating changes”

Andrew Holm – Matt Black Systems

All the Icon file Formats You Need

Whether you’re modernising a legacy CAD platform or building new tools for the cloud, we provide production-ready icon assets in the formats you need, optimised for speed, clarity & compatibility. We’ll match your spec or help define it.

We regularly deliver in:

SVG – Scalable, editable & perfect for modern interfaces
PNG – Pixel-perfect in all standard sizes: 16, 24, 32, 48 & more
XAML – Ideal for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) apps
ICO – For toolbars, shortcuts & legacy Windows support
BMP – For embedded use in older systems

Need help integrating the icons into your build? Just ask, we’re used to collaborating directly with developers and internal design, UI or UX teams to ensure seamless handover. Whether you’re using modern frameworks or maintaining legacy platforms, we’ll help make implementation straightforward and aligned with your design system. You can also check out our SVG icon best practices guide for tips on getting the most from scalable formats.

SVG, PNG, ICO, XAML and BMP icon file types supported

Mini Case Study: QinetiQ Paramarine

QinetiQ’s Paramarine is a specialised CAD application used globally for submarine and marine vessel design, supporting everything from buoyancy simulations to survivability assessments. The software is a vital tool in the defence and marine engineering sectors, where visual clarity and fast operator response are critical.

Our role was to design a complete icon set overhaul, replacing outdated visuals with over 1,200 custom-designed icons that could support an expanding range of features and modules. Each icon was designed to deliver clarity in high-density toolbars and to remain intuitive for technically trained users working in complex environments.

We collaborated closely with QinetiQ’s internal team to define icon categories, manage phases, and align visuals with their existing interface logic. Our Icon Manager platform played a central role in streamlining feedback, versioning, and stakeholder reviews across departments.

The final result? A modernised UI that feels more consistent, easier to learn, and better suited to the technical nature of the platform, delivered on time, with minimal disruption to internal teams.

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Custom naval CAD software icon design for QinetiQ Paramarine

CAD Icon FAQs

Can you match or replace our existing CAD icons?: Yes. We can replicate your current visual style, or help you evolve it into something more modern and scalable, without disrupting user familiarity.
What platforms do you support?: We deliver icons for desktop, web & mobile platforms, including Windows, WPF/XAML, Electron, Qt, and embedded systems.
How many icons can you produce?: From 10 to 10,000+, we scale to your needs. Our team of professional icon designers can ramp up production fast, perfect for large-scale CAD rollouts.
Do you offer fixed pricing or phased projects?: We offer both but normally it is a fixed cost per icon for the entire project. However, some clients choose to break large projects into manageable phases with clear milestones and deliverables.

Still have questions? We’re happy to help. Whether you’re exploring options, scoping a full icon redesign, or just need expert input on file formats or workflow, we’ll make the process simple and stress-free. Just drop us a message, we’ll guide you from the first icon to the final deliverable.

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