Version 2.10 for Windows - 14 Batch Commands, Screen Eyedropper, and 166 MCP Tools

Axialis IconVectors 2.10 is now available for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit. The Icon Explorer grows from three Batch Processing commands to 14, the Colors panel gains a screen eyedropper, the Explorer gets New Icon and Auto Save, the Element Library gets search, and the MCP server exposes 166 tools.

Windows users can update from Help -> Check for Updates or install the latest trial from the download page. IconVectors 2.10 for macOS and Linux is coming soon; the 2.00 releases on those platforms update themselves in place when it ships.

What's new in 2.10

• 14 batch commands - Add Badge Overlays, Adjust Icon Colors, Apply Auto Gradient, Apply Palette, Center and Fit, Change Line Stroke, Convert to currentColor, Make Icon Versions, Make PNG, ICO Bitmap Icons, Optimize SVG Files, Outline Strokes, Replace Colors, Resize Icons and Rotate / Flip, from the Explorer menu, the context menu or the toolbar.
• Batch options that stay out of your way - Settings are remembered as soon as you enter them, previews have a Back button, suffixes can be empty when paths stay safe, and diagnostics say why a file was skipped instead of hiding it.
• New Icon and Auto Save Icons - New Icon creates a document that saves into the current Explorer folder. Explorer -> Auto Save Icons (off by default) saves the edited icon when you open the next one, and closing an Explorer icon takes you back to the Explorer.
• Escape, wheel and keyboard shortcuts - Escape closes an idle document, Ctrl+wheel zooms, Alt+wheel scrolls horizontally, and Bring Up/Send Down are on Ctrl+Page Up/Page Down.
• Colors panel gestures and a screen eyedropper - Color gestures apply Fill or Stroke directly, and the new eyedropper samples any pixel on screen through a magnifier: left-click for Fill, right-click for Stroke. Windows only in this release.
• Element Library search - Type to filter the current tab by name or filename. The popup stays on screen, and the folder button opens the library in the built-in Explorer.
• Path Editor and compound path fixes - Hidden and zero-size paths, Bezier handles, seam corners, corner rounding and anchor selection behave correctly; released compound paths keep their curves.
• Paste, badge and geometry fixes - Pasted elements stay selected and land in a sensible place, badge cutout and shadow undo as one step, and geometry operations reject invalid coordinates.
• SVG import, export and rendering fixes - Better oversized-canvas conversion, CDATA stylesheet and gradient import, gradient cleanup, currentColor and group-opacity rendering, and multi-bitmap export into new folders.
• MCP: 166 tools - Up from 155. All 14 batch commands run through the same plan-then-apply protocol as the UI, and ICO export accepts chosen pixel sizes with 32-bit transparency.
• Bridge diagnostics and safe targeting - A busy port is detected and a loopback fallback discovered (default stays 61337), app_ping is the real health check, and duplicate element IDs are reported instead of silently picked.

14 batch commands

Each command runs the Editor's own transformation on every selected SVG file, after a preview you can cancel:

• Add Badge Overlays - Combine base icons with badge icons, with placement and an optional cutout.
• Adjust Icon Colors - Brightness, contrast, hue and saturation changes on many files.
• Apply Auto Gradient - Turn flat colors into same-tone gradients.
• Apply Palette - Map every color to the nearest swatch of a palette.
• Center and Fit - Center the artwork or scale it inside equal margins.
• Change Line Stroke - Set stroke width, caps, joins and color.
• Convert to currentColor - Replace chosen colors with theme-controlled currentColor.
• Make Icon Versions - Create Hot, Disabled and Dark Theme variants.
• Make PNG, ICO Bitmap Icons - Export PNGs and multi-size ICOs with 32-bit transparency.
• Optimize SVG Files - Compact the SVG syntax; originals are rewritten only when smaller.
• Outline Strokes - Convert strokes into filled paths.
• Replace Colors - Pick from the detected colors and swap each for a new one.
• Resize Icons - Change the icon dimensions.
• Rotate / Flip - Rotate by a preset or free angle, flip horizontally or vertically.

From Explorer to Editor and back

New Icon starts a document that already knows its folder, so Save goes where you expect. With Auto Save Icons on, a review pass through a folder becomes open, edit, open the next. Closing an Explorer icon returns you to the Explorer with its folder, filter and selection intact.

MCP: 166 tools

An MCP client can now run every batch command, on explicit file paths or the current Explorer selection, with the same preview and safeguards as the UI. The bridge is easier to diagnose: start each session with app_ping, which now reports the requested and actual ports, and expect an ambiguous_element_id error with candidates when an id is not unique. Setup for the eight documented clients is unchanged.

Learn more

• Download IconVectors 2.10 for Windows
• Complete changelog
• IconVectors feature overview
• Batch Processing: selection, preview and safety
• Working between Explorer and Editor (New Icon, Auto Save Icons)
• Picking a color from the screen (Colors panel eyedropper)
• Element Library search
• MCP integration overview (166 tools)
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Tutorial: batch process SVG icons with the Icon Explorer
• Tutorial: drive the Icon Explorer and batches from MCP