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Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

(OP)
Hello all,
I have been plagued by this annoyance for some time now and am finally sick enough of it to ask for assistance.  When I go to open a file in SW and turn on the thumbnail view, some assembly thumbnails are just empty, blank, and white while others show just fine.  Anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?

Thanks,
BB

2011 SP1.0
XP x64

RE: Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

Does opening the blank-icon files, saving and closing not fix the problem?

RE: Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

(OP)
Hi CBL,

No luck.

RE: Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

BB,

Perchance are some of these blank previews files generated from imported solids?  We have had many cases where solids made in another system were not anywhere close to the origin and had not been opened and centered on the view space before saving.

Regardless of how these files came about try opening the parts in question, hit the "f" key to zoom to center the part and then save it.  This should save that view of the part as the icon and preview image.

- - -Updraft

RE: Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

(OP)
Hi Updraft,

I did try your suggestions and no luck.

One of the assy files is an imported one but the others are assembly files consisting of parts created by me from scratch in SW.

Thanks,
BB

RE: Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

Try a ctrl-q rebuild, then save and see if that works.

Need to force SW to refresh the image it embeds in the file.

Not sure of a sure fire technique to make that happen.

Cheers,
 

Anna Wood
Core i7 EE965, Nvidia Quadro 5000, 12 Gb RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gb SSD, Dell 3008WFP 30" Monitor
SW2011 SP0, Windows 7 x64
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RE: Thumbnail Icons (Assy) Blank

Look under "Tools/Option".
In the "System Options" tab, is the box checked "Show thumbnail graphics in Window Explorer"?

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
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