Entity icon

[jparks_79]

Hello There,

We have a few installations of Vault Pro 2012 where the users do not of any other cad applications installed.

The issue I want to address is the icon for the file type appears blank on these machines. In otherwords, the icon in Vault explorer is a white sheet instead of the normal ipt, idw, iam... icons

Is there anyway to have these show? Again, they only have vault pro 2012 and the design review software installed. Is true view and inventor view required?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[smithmat]

I believe the icon is simply reflecting the OS icon for a file.  Normally installing Inventor would set up the file associations.  If you want it to occur without installation, you would need to obtain the icons and manually set the icon for the file types.  

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh127427(v=vs.85).aspx 

[r.smith1]

Hi Jeremy,

Matt has the right idea.  You may also try to install the viewer applications for the various file types (if they exist) on the user machine, so they build the file association relationship.  You can easily find DWGTTrueView, design review and inventor view on your 2012 installer media.  You will need to search on line for Microsoft viewers and adobe viewers etc. if these are desired.  

[jparks_79]

Hi Ron,

I went ahead and installed the viewers on a machine. It looks liked the trueview helped the DWG files, but the inventor association still wasn't created. When trying to open the ipt or idw, I had to tell windows that I wanted to open with inventor view.

The icon changed, but not to what I expected. See below. Any suggestions on how to get the normal inventor icons without having to update the registry?

Desired display