Thumbnails Aren't Showing Correctly

[jwarnke]

I'm using Solidowrks 2009 1.0 X64 now and for some reason in windows explorer my thumbnail actaully use the "icon" images. Meaning, I see an image of the part, but I can hardly make out what it is. What happened to my regular thumbnails? Can I fix this?

Joel C. Warnke
Mechanical Designer &
Infrastructure Technician
Integrity Design & Mfg. Inc.

http://www.integritydesignmfg.com

Solidworks x64 2008 SP5.0
Windows XP Professional x64
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 512mb GPU
AMD Athlon X2 FX 6400+ CPU
4GB Corsair pc2-6400 DDR2 800mhz RAM
WD Velociraptor 10,000rpm SATA HD
Motherboard M2N-SLI
GPU OC (2

 

[handleman]

Check out Anna's link in thread559-227482.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[smcadman]

jg00000 has a download that fixes this I think. I don't have 64 but Handleman said it worked and he can tell you if it's the same problem you are having:

http://eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=220014&page=5

(jg00000's post is third from the last dated 6 Nov 08 18:49)

Flores

 

[handleman]

What do you mean by "regular thumbnails"? Do you mean the generic part/assembly/drawing icons? If you want those, it's a setting in Tools->Options, System Options tab, General category - Use thumbnail graphics in Windows Explorer.

If you are meaning how the thumbnail quality is worse than it used to be, Anna's link has the answer. Not really any solution, just an reason why they're crappy.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)