First time I've heard that. The last TurboCAD Mac icons I saw I thought were questionable. I also think the AutoCAD for Mac icons are a challenge to see (bad contrast) but I guess it's a personal opinion.

Tim

Tim:

Perhaps the problem is my own insecurity in the guy's comments to me.

Like I said earlier I find them to be thoroughly visually intuitive - as in I understand what each tool is without having to hover over for info. It was just that I didn't know how to respond to the guy at the time.

Blowlamp: At first when I started reading your comment, it had such a serious note that I was completely unprepared for the humorous sarcasm of the second part. :)

misterrogers.
Glad you took my little joke as intended.
From what I could gather from your original post, it seemed like the client was trying to undermine your confidence by criticising the tool you chose to use. My effort at being funny was just my response to his petty attitude and the embarrassment it caused you.

Martin.

Michael did some of the early Concepts icons. Jol has been doing all the current ones. You can see them all in the Skins folder.

Tim

Do you thing that these icons (attachment) is more professional!! Or less funky!!..or less cartoon!!

Yes, it's solidThinking V8.

Good examples Antoine!
For me Cinema4D is good, but 3Ddesign cad looks very good (very serious)...

Like Tim said, everybody have a different opinion!

I know this might be a hot topic because it's all personal preferences. I'm very opinionated about the icons and tool palettes. I'm coming from 17 years of ashlar and I'm trying to like the icons and palettes in shark. For what its worth here is my take:

I don't like having the rotate ball disappear and it's difficult to access the drop down view menu. The target area is too small for quick mouse movement.

I don't like having the palettes combined. I don't use view, rendering, mts and rarely meshes so I would prefer to have them hidden to reduce clutter.

I don't like having two columns of icons, it makes it confusing to locate the icon I'm looking for.

The icons represent the tool accurately but are too detailed and eye candyish making them hard to identify quickly.

The show hide palette is cryptic for someone who is used to a simple word menu. I really have to stop and think about which icon does what I want.

I LOVE being able to create my own palettes. I wish I could bring the pop out icons to the new menu. Then I could make the ideal palettes.

Well that's about it for now, I've got more if your interested.
--dale

LOL. When I hear something like that I assume the comment is made by somebody who is in a little over their head or is threatened by what I am showing depending on their tone.

Your response must be gaged by that person's stature (personal as well as authority) in the room, their likelihood to be able to damage you in the future, and how important their understanding is.

If you can keep all ernestness and forthright attitude in your tone you might be able to get away with just asking if there is something they don't understand and would like clarified. More likely though you need to take a different safer tactic. Agree with them 100% and make a joke about it making their silly comment sound clever. "Yeah, Bugs Bunny helped me with this. He's quite a good designer, but you know how those toons are. Gotta cut up somewhere." Make sure you plaster a big shit eating grin on your face when you do. Then after the tension is relieved for yourself you can mentally review what was just covered and see if you can find any point where you might have lost your listener and review that point. You can even pretend to have lost your place in your presentation and go back a little further just to be safe. Even those that are following you may be glad to go back a little bit. You were not the only one distracted by the interruption.

I am not such a good public speaker. My immediate response to a heckler is to cut them down at their own expense and amuse everybody else. "Maybe we should replace you with a kindergardener then. Atleast they would be paying attention to the presentation." That's fine in a lecture hall in front of a general audience, but rarely a good idea in a board room or a business meeeting.

As long as you didn't lose your professionalism and you were able to complete a decent comprehensible presentation to the rest of the people in the room I am sure you are fine.

Unfortunately there is often an unbridgeable breach between theory and practice.