2026 September 03

Version 2.00 for Windows - Icon Explorer, Batch Processing, and a New Colors Panel

September 3, 2026 - by the Axialis Engineering team

Axialis IconVectors 2.00 is now available for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit. This release adds a second workspace, the Icon Explorer, for browsing and managing whole folders of SVG files without leaving the application, Batch Processing that applies a palette, a resize or new strokes to many files at once, and a new Colors panel with a faster fill and stroke workflow. It also brings Even-Odd and Non-Zero fill rules for compound paths, a Control Bar that adapts to what you are doing, and a local MCP server that now exposes 155 tools.

Windows users can update from Help -> Check for Updates or install the latest trial from the download page. IconVectors 2.00 for macOS and Linux is coming soon.

IconVectors 2.00 Editor in the dark theme: the new Editor/Explorer switch at the far left of the Control Bar, a white camera icon with a green check badge on a 24x24 canvas at 2700% zoom, and the new Colors pane on the right showing the COLORS page with its color field, hue strip, HEX value #EE3A83, and the Recent and Select rows above the Preview and Layers panes — The 2.00 Editor workspace in the dark theme, editing camera-ok.svg (24x24 px canvas at 2700% zoom). The Editor/Explorer switch is now the first control on the Control Bar. On the right, the new Colors pane puts palettes and individual colors in one place: its COLORS page shows the Saturation/Value field, the Hue strip, the HEX value (#EE3A83), the Recent colors row and the Select row, above the Preview and Layers panes.

What's new in 2.00

Integrated Icon Explorer - A second workspace that shows a local folder's SVG files as a thumbnail grid, with the folder's direct subfolders and their icon counts listed above it. Every tile shows the filename and canvas size; choose 64, 96, 128, 192 or 256 px tiles, a Light, Dark, Checkerboard or Borderless background, and a substring Filter that narrows the grid to matching filenames. Only the visible tiles render, so folders with thousands of files stay responsive. The current folder is watched, so files added, changed, renamed or removed by another application show up automatically; Ctrl+R or Explorer -> Refresh rescans on demand.
Editor and Explorer workspaces - Open the Explorer with View -> Explorer (F5), return with View -> Icon Editor (F4), or press Ctrl+Tab to toggle. The new Editor/Explorer switch at the far left of the Control Bar does the same with the mouse, and Shift+F5 opens an independent Explorer window. Switching keeps the Editor layout exactly as you left it and the open document stays open; Explorer is fully usable with no document open at all. The Control Bar itself now adapts to the current workspace, document and selection: in Explorer it keeps the primary commands on one row and moves the less-used ones into a "More" menu when space is short.
Faster folder navigation - Type a path in the editable address (Enter applies, Escape restores) or use the "..." browse button. Recent Folders lists the last 20 folders you opened, newest first; Back and Forward keep up to 100 history entries; both persist between sessions. Up and the ".." entry go to the parent folder, one button per Windows drive remembers the last folder you used on that drive, and the Documents and Elements buttons jump straight to those folders.
Built-in file management - Copy (Ctrl+C), Paste (Ctrl+V), Duplicate (Ctrl+D, producing name-copy.svg, then name-copy-2.svg and so on), Rename (Ctrl+Shift+R), Batch Rename for two or more files (a base name, optional -N numbering and optional zero padding, for example Base-01.svg to Base-12.svg), Delete, New Folder, and Group in Folder, which copies the selected files into a new subfolder (or moves them on request). Output is staged and validated before anything is committed to disk.
Advanced drag and drop - Drag SVGs between folders inside Explorer: a drop on the same drive moves, a drop on another drive copies, Ctrl forces a copy and Shift forces a move, and hovering a folder opens it so you can keep navigating while you drag. Files also drag to and from Windows File Explorer, and dropping SVGs onto the Editor imports them as editable groups in one undoable step (one SVG dropped into an empty Editor opens it as a document).
Batch Processing - Explorer -> Batch Processing (or the context menu) runs Apply Palette..., Resize Icons... or Apply Strokes... on all selected SVG files, using the same transformations as the Editor. Each operation plans first and shows exact changed, unchanged, unsupported and failed counts before you confirm. More batch operations are coming.
New Colors panel - View -> Colors opens one pane with two pages. PALETTES holds the palette selector, its commands and the swatches. COLORS adds a Saturation/Value field, a Hue strip and HEX, RGB or HSL value modes, and owns an independent defined color that does not follow the selected element.
Faster Fill and Stroke workflow - Left-click a color to apply it to Fill, right-click to apply it to Stroke; a double-click in the color field does the same. The Select row applies the defined color, White, Black, [C] for SVG currentColor, or None, and a Recent colors row keeps the colors you applied last so you do not have to rebuild them.
Even-Odd and Non-Zero fill rules - Select a compound path and choose Path -> Fill Rule -> Non-Zero or Even-Odd to control how overlapping subpaths and holes render. Your choice becomes the default for new compound paths, and fill-rule is read on SVG import and written on export.
More powerful MCP integration - The local MCP server now exposes exactly 155 tools, including Icon Explorer navigation, file operations, the batch plan/apply protocol and new editing capabilities. Documented setup now covers Gemini CLI, Kiro, Cline and GitHub Copilot CLI in addition to Codex, Claude Desktop and Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code with GitHub Copilot.
Improved UI, reliability and toolchain - Navigation, panels, popups, drag and drop and workspace restoration are smoother and more predictable. IconVectors 2.00 is built with the MSVC v145 toolchain and updated graphics dependencies, and numerous bugs have been fixed.

Inside the Icon Explorer

IconVectors 2.00 Icon Explorer on the folder IconVectors Icons: an address bar with browse, New Folder, Documents, Elements and drive buttons, Back and Forward, a Filter box, Size 128 px and Background Dark controls, a row of subfolders with icon counts, and a grid of 24x24 px SVG tiles with cloud.svg marked by the blue Open in Editor badge — The Explorer workspace on a folder of 14 icons, 128 px tiles on the Dark background. The first row holds the address with its browse button, New Folder, the Documents and Elements shortcuts and one button per drive (C:, D:, G:, R:); the second row holds Back, Forward, the Filter box, Size and Background. Subfolders come first with their icon counts (Axialis Emoji, 113 icons; Axialis Flat Design, 72 icons; and so on), then one tile per SVG with its filename and canvas size. cloud.svg carries the blue Open in Editor badge because it is the document open in the Editor, and the status bar reports the last file operation: 5 SVG files pasted.

Explorer is built for working on many files at once. Ctrl+click and Shift+click extend the selection, Ctrl+A selects every icon currently shown (a filter narrows it), and the whole grid can be driven from the keyboard. Double-click a tile, or select it and press Enter, to open that icon in the Editor; its tile gets the blue Open in Editor badge so you can see at a glance which file is loaded.

File operations are conservative by design. Paste and Duplicate never overwrite an existing file, and their output is written to a staging area and validated before it is committed. Delete always asks for confirmation and is permanent: this release does not send files to the Recycle Bin, so read the prompt before you confirm.

Batch processing built to be safe

Batch Processing reuses the same Apply Palette, Resize Icons and Apply Strokes transformations you already use on a single icon in the Editor, and runs them on every selected SVG file. It works in two phases. First, every target file is parsed and validated, and a plan tells you exactly how many files will change, how many stay unchanged, and how many are unsupported or failed. Nothing has been written at this point; Cancel leaves the folder untouched.

When you confirm, the output is staged and validated in full before any original is replaced, and the operation rolls back if anything fails. A themed progress dialog tracks the run and lets you cancel. Apply Palette, Resize Icons and Apply Strokes are the first three operations; more are planned.

A faster color workflow

The new Colors panel keeps palettes and individual colors in one pane. The PALETTES page is where you pick a palette, run its commands and click swatches. The COLORS page owns a defined color of its own: a single click or drag in the Saturation/Value field or on the Hue strip changes only that defined color, so you can dial in a value in HEX, RGB or HSL without touching the current selection.

Applying a color is a matter of which mouse button you press, wherever the color comes from: left-click applies to Fill and right-click applies to Stroke on palette swatches, on the Recent row and on the Select row, and a double-click in the color field applies the defined color the same way. The Select row also offers White, Black, [C] for SVG currentColor (so the icon inherits its color from the surrounding text) and None. Each Recent swatch applies its own solid color without loading it into the defined color, so the color you are preparing stays put while you reuse earlier ones.

MCP: 155 tools and four more coding agents

IconVectors 1.40 introduced the local MCP server; 2.00 grows it to exactly 155 tools. Beyond document, selection, path, style, gradient, palette, preview and export tools, an MCP client can now navigate the Icon Explorer, run file operations, drive the same plan-then-apply batch protocol as the UI, and use new editing capabilities.

Setup guides now cover Gemini CLI, Kiro, Cline and GitHub Copilot CLI alongside Codex, Claude Desktop and Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code with GitHub Copilot. Every guide describes the same local connection: IconVectors runs on your desktop, the client launches the IconVectorsMcp.exe sidecar, and the sidecar forwards calls to the running application over loopback. There is no remote endpoint.

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