Thumbnails (open diag.) dissapearaing! 2004

[ElectroMatt]

Hi,

It seems as if all my thumbnails are dissapearing from the File,Open dialog box when I have the paperspace background set to black. I had it set to white for the longest time. I have found that I like it better as black as I can keep using standard colors rather than pick "paper-friendly" colors.

Thumbnails show up correctly in windows explorer, and even in the File,Open box if selected (upper right corner, one at a time). I would like to view a folder of thumbnails just like a list of large icons.

I thought it might be a system variable like RASTERPREVIEW, but it's set to 1 as default.

Any ideas, folks?

 

[hotrodtod]

What version of AutoCAD are you running? What is the OS version you have? This should help in determining what is going on with AutoCAD.

Thanks,

 

[ElectroMatt]

I'm running AutoCad 2004.0.0 SP0 on a Windows 2000 box with 768MB ram and an Elsa Synergy 2000 video card.

My company didn't pay for the subscription service, so getting patches and such isn't possible?

Matt

 

[hotrodtod]

AutoCAD 2004 has a SP1 for download at the following link,

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=3539376&linkID=2475161

I would suggest installing this and see what happens. Also go into options and under Open and Save, make sure the check box is checked where it says Save a thumbnail preview image.

 

[ElectroMatt]

I patched to SP1, still doesn't work.

Thanks for the link, I guess I was unaware that I could get SPs without a subscription. That's the way Solidworks behaves.