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You can generate thumbnail images for 2D or 3D files attached to a document by completing the following steps:

How can I generate thumbnails for a document?

Before generating thumbnails for a document, check with your administrator to ensure that following method FileCompositionGenerateThumbnail is assigned to your username. This setting will display the Generate Thumbnail method in the document's Actions menu.

  1. Select a document and click Actions > Show Files.

  2. Select a file and click Actions > Generate Thumbnails to generate thumbnails for the supported file types.

    SHARED Tip To view the generated thumbnails for a file, you can click Show Thumbnails under the file's Relationship menu.

  • By default, you cannot generate a thumbnail for a file which already has one. However, if you are an administrator you can change the default behavior to allow the regeneration of thumbnails, by updating the GenerateThumbnail client API.

  • If you are an administrator, you can enable auto generate thumbnails whenever a document is created, revised and checked in.

  • The thumbnails of a file are especially useful when you want to view the content of the file without opening it.

  • To view the status of thumbnail generation, you can view the List of Notifications.