Importing Custom Point Symbols

[MichaelLohr]

How do I import 3rd party Point symbols (png format) in ArcGIS Pro, so that they are available in the Symbology Gallery?

I tried looking in the Help but no help. Maybe I missed it.

[DanPatterson_Retired]

Untried but highly recommended... picture marker in Xander's post https://community.esri.com/message/622073?commentID=622073#comment-557184

[MichaelLohr]

Dan, this is somewhat helpful, in that it allows you to attach to an outside picture file for a particular symbol. Tried it, it does work. But it does not add it to the Symbol Gallery where it would be available for other maps. Also, it appears to be a one-at-a-time as opposed to importing a group of new symbols. 

You are able to do this in ArcMap Desktop

Thanks Dan.

[KoryKramer]

What about adding a point symbol to your Favorites.stylx

as a PNG?

Then its available in all projects from the gallery:

How were you bulk importing in ArcMap?

[MichaelLohr]

Thanks Kory. Another good thought. Much appreciated.

But it still is a one at a a time process. I know that there are Symbol Libraries for about any industry you can imagine, with hundreds of symbols. 

In ArcMap, you would run the Style Manager, then add a new style, browse to where you had downloaded a symbol library in a .style format, then upload that entire library at once, markers, line symbols, fill, etc. Whatever is defined in your .style file. Only works, obviously, if you have a correctly formatted .style format, not a folder of BMP symbol files. 

I am new to ArcGIS Pro and did not see a similar Style Manager interface, which prompted the original question.

Is the .stylx the ArcGIS Pro equivalent to the ArcMap .style file?

GitHub had a possible item to try, but I have not explored it

GitHub - Esri/solutions-symbology-data: Source data for Solutions Symbology used in Templates (Note:... 

[KoryKramer]

Yes, the .stylx is the Pro equivalent to the ArcMap .style file.  If you already have the .stylx, just import it to your Pro project.  Add styles to a project—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop 

You can either add symbols to your Favorites, or you can create a project template containing a connection to your custom style and whenever you want a Pro project with that style, create it from the template.

Create a project template—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop 

[ZacharyKlaas]

I have no trouble adding the point symbols to my gallery, but arcpy scripts can't see what I've done.  Manually I can click on my added point symbol from a new mapicons.stylx file, but arcpy can only see my system styles, not any I've added to the gallery.  Is there a reason for this?

[AnaVillaran]

Hi Zachary, were you able to relate the stylx file within the script?

I am trying to access custom symbols stored within a shared drive so that multiple users are able to use a script tool; however, the script doesn't seem to be able to identify that style file when I try to use 'item.symbol.applySymbolFromGallery'.