Missing Thumbnail Images

If the integration preferences are set to generate thumbnails and if the thumbnails images are missing on the inventor files, then during save to PLM, integration will create the thumbnail images on inventor and this will have impact on the performance of save to PLM process.

It is observed that to create thumbnail images for 4 inventor files, over all save to PLM process time is increased by about 60 seconds. To avoid this users can manually create the missing thumbnails on the inventor files.

To generate the thumbnails that are missing for an Inventor file, complete the following steps:

  1. Open each Inventor file for which thumbnail images are missing and access the iProperties dialog.

  2. Select the Active Window on Save option.
  3. Click Apply.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Save file locally in Inventor. A thumbnail preview is generated in Inventor (e.g. From “fileopen” dialog).
  6. On the PLM menu, click Save to PLM or Generate thumbnails.