Inventor's thumbnail in Windows Explorer

[joaopirotta]

I’m facing a problem with thumbnails from Autodesk Inventor’s files in Windows Explorer.
Using OPEN command within Autodesk Inventor the thumbnails works fine and displays the 3D model image, but if I choose to display thumbnails in an Windows Explorer folder just appear the Autodesk Inventor's icons.
I’ve tried to apply that procedure but no success: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/pictures-do-not-display-as-thumb...
Do you know what could be done to solve this case?

[VinodBalasubramanian · Accepted solution]

Can you try this out,

1. Go to the Windows Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab.
2. Make sure the "Always show icons, never thumbnails" check box is not selected.

[inchul.lee · Accepted solution]

Hi Joao,

Welcome to the Inventor forum!

It is possible that Inventor thumbnails and icons are not correctly registered in Windows.

Try to re-associate Inventor files from Control Panel > Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program.

Or, try the following steps to register thumbnails and icons correctly in Windows environment:

1. Open a command promt as Administrator (you need Admin rights)
2. Start this command in command prompt >>regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2017\Bin\thview.dll"<< *
3. Restart your machine

[fpertuz]

@inchul.lee wrote:

Hi Joao,

Welcome to the Inventor forum!

It is possible that Inventor thumbnails and icons are not correctly registered in Windows.

Try to re-associate Inventor files from Control Panel > Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program.

Or, try the following steps to register thumbnails and icons correctly in Windows environment:

1. Open a command promt as Administrator (you need Admin rights)
2. Start this command in command prompt >>regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2017\Bin\thview.dll"<< *
3. Restart your machine

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Very thx bro

[Anonymous]

thanks this worked for me