Autocad tool bar icons

We recently made the big leap to 2005 from 2002. The move has not been the smoothest one though, toolbar icon carried over from R14 and which worked in 2002 now are just question marks. We tried editing to RCDATA_16 but still can not be found. One of the icons is stretch, we can not find any way of carrying over the icon so they can be painted over in the 2005 buttons.
Ideas anybody.
The ones that are .bmp's are easy to bring in but the RCDATA and ICONS thing is strange.
Please help.

 

If you still have the opportunity to go back to 2002 you could save your old toolbar buttons to a .bmp file and bring them into 2005 as a .bmp. Could be a better way out there but this is what I would do.

 

I had the same problem when updating to AutoCAD 2004 LT from 2000i LT.

When you say "We tried editing to RCDATA_16" do you mean that you
overrode the old ICON_16 text in your ***Toolbars section of your main
..mnu (such as aclt.mnu) with RCDATA_16?

After hours of searching for a fix, I discovered this difference from
the old aclt.mnu and the new, and simply did a find and replace to
update my custom .mnu file ICON entries to the new RCDATA_16 standard.

Let us know if this is what you did and it failed to help or if you do
have success with this approach.

 

2004 & 2005 now use icons which are 16x16 pixels. Previously, they were
16x15. When AutoCAD uses the old format, it stretches them vertically,
making them look blurry. Simply add an additional row of pixels on the
bottom of each icon, using Paint, Photoshop, etc. to make them look sharp
again.

Follow CadBC1997's advice for the question marks problem.

 

Why not just get used to the new icons? Are you going to do this for every
version? Seems like a good time to cut the ties to 2002 and just move
forward with 2005... completely.