SW previews
SW previews
(OP)
We have some users who use the SolidWorks Viewer to look at and print existing drawings. They'd like to have Windows Explorer display a thumbnail of SW drawings when they click once on them, as most image files do. This would help them locate the file they want without having to open them.
Those who have the full version of SolidWorks do have this functionality, but I can't find any way to get this for our Viewer users. Any ideas out there?
Those who have the full version of SolidWorks do have this functionality, but I can't find any way to get this for our Viewer users. Any ideas out there?






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Flores
SW06 SP2.0
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
(Unabashedly Politically Incorrect)
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Yes, we've tried eDrawings, but find little to recommend it over the admittedly lame Viewer. It seems like both of these are pretty limited unless the full version of SW is also installed.
Roland:
We could export them as a variety of image file types, but it seems like we shouldn't have to. Lots of extra work and files to manage. There is something (a Registry entry??) that Windows is using to generate the thumbnails for some file types and not others. Seems like if a registered application can read and display a file type, it should also be able to generate a thumbnail. I'd just like to find out the mechanism so I can enable it for these users.
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Chris
Systems Analyst
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
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htt
See if you can live with edrawing for one more year.I wouldn't knock on edrawings. I think its a great tool.
Just save the drawings as recomended as a tif or jpeg with the same name as the .slddrw file and put all these in a folder in the drawings directory. If someone need sto see a preview then they can open the folder, thumbnail or filmstrip through the pics, and then go back up in the directory and locate the name corresponding to the pic they just spotted.
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That doesn't help if Windows (somehow) doesn't know how to create a thumbnail. It does display thumbnails for all the files it knows how to. For example, it won't display the thumbnail for a Word doc. Along that line, it seems like some people might want to be able to preview Word docs!
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Happy Holidays!!
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I'm very interested in the answer, though.
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