Wrong thumbnails for Inventor and AutoCad files

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Wrong thumbnails for Inventor and AutoCad files

Anonymous
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Hello all

 

I have gotten a quite annoying issue lately.

 

My inventor and AutoCad files seems to have gotten messed up thumbnails... Picture below shows how a working folder migh appear...

Both part and assembly files has the same icon..

 

This goes for everywhere i save a file, both on desktop, working folder etc.

 

inventor thumbnails.png

 

Does anyone have same experience ? And does anyone know how to fix this ?

I am running a newly updated 2015 proffessional, but the issue appeared late on the 2014 version.

An update to latest version did not fix the problem in other words

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Paul-Mason
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Looks like you in "DETAIL VIEW"

 

PM screen shot011.png

 

 

As opposed to "LARGE ICON"

 

 

PM screen shot012.png

 

You may have to change all the sub-files one at a time if  navigating to C:\Users\**you name here ** in the LEFT-HAND pain of Windows Explorer and RMB - properties and :-

 

PM screen shot001.png

then Apply or OK

 

Some time ago I had a similar problem where no matter what I did I could not get a preview, in that case it was caused by Avequest Fix It Utilities, so if you've got that on your system then I'm afraid you screwed unless you remove it an put something like Norton on instead.

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Inventor 2025 Pro
HP Z420 workstation
Xeon 3.7Ghz CPU 8 Cores, 64 GB Ram
64bit (The Garbage known as) Windows 10 Pro
AMD FirePro V3900 (ATI FireGL) (1GB RAM)
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Ashington Northumberland (UK) ~ Home to the WORLD FAMOUS Pitman Painters Group
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Anonymous
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Hello

 

I am not quite sure that is my problem... neither have I installed the program you mention.

 

thumbnails 1.png

I was expecting my files to show as on the picture above (taken from internet), and not like mine do...

I cant see this having anything with detail view or similar...

 

All my files have the same icon... assemblies and parts... .drawings etc... That is my problem

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Paul-Mason
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Are you seeing this from with in the Inventor min-browser when opening a file as well ?

 

Have you OPENED any of the files yet ??

 

I note you say latest version what version were/did you using/use to create these files ???

 

Did/Have you MIGRATED these files to the most recent versions of Inventor ????

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Inventor 2025 Pro
HP Z420 workstation
Xeon 3.7Ghz CPU 8 Cores, 64 GB Ram
64bit (The Garbage known as) Windows 10 Pro
AMD FirePro V3900 (ATI FireGL) (1GB RAM)
=================
Ashington Northumberland (UK) ~ Home to the WORLD FAMOUS Pitman Painters Group
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Anonymous
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Are you seeing this from with in the Inventor min-browser when opening a file as well ?

- My files look the same no matter from where i look at them... both browser and opening files.. also files stored on my desktop appear the same way

 

Have you OPENED any of the files yet ??

Yes, i have used Inventor as normal

 

I note you say latest version what version were/did you using/use to create these files ???

- Most files were originally created in 2014.. the issues started while using 2014. An uninstallment of this and fresh install of 2015 did not solve the issues

 

Did/Have you MIGRATED these files to the most recent versions of Inventor ????

- Files are migrated to 2015 version. We have 4 other users which does not have this issues

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