topic Re: How to create or refresh thumbnails for a whole folder? in System Administration https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153217#M1051 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Correct orientation should be the "default" orientation (isometric in my setup). As a plus it would be great to be able to adjust it by steps of 90°, right now I have a mapkey that calls a orientation change rotating each time 90° around the vertical axis. But this is not necessary</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:55:14 GMT pzago 2017-01-10T10:55:14Z How to create or refresh thumbnails for a whole folder? https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153215#M1049 Is there a way, using a script or external software or whatever, to force the regeneration and saving of thumbnails for a folder?I have a folder with many parts saved during the years, some don't have thumbnails, some have thumbnails from old versions of Creo Elements (blueish Thu, 03 May 2018 00:03:50 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153215#M1049 pzago 2018-05-03T00:03:50Z Re: How to create or refresh thumbnails for a whole folder? https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153216#M1050 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I can imagine to write an application to do this.. What is the correct orientation - do you need user's input for it?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:41:16 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153216#M1050 TomasLoun 2017-01-10T09:41:16Z Re: How to create or refresh thumbnails for a whole folder? https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153217#M1051 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Correct orientation should be the "default" orientation (isometric in my setup). As a plus it would be great to be able to adjust it by steps of 90°, right now I have a mapkey that calls a orientation change rotating each time 90° around the vertical axis. But this is not necessary</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:55:14 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153217#M1051 pzago 2017-01-10T10:55:14Z Re: How to create or refresh thumbnails for a whole folder? https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153218#M1052 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>So the application can just simply list the folder, and for each part do the same - open in Creo, run your macro (orientation, tricks), save and close. It should not be difficult. Do you know how to develop such an application?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:08:00 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153218#M1052 TomasLoun 2017-01-10T11:08:00Z Re: How to create or refresh thumbnails for a whole folder? https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153219#M1053 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No I don't <IMG src="https://community.ptc.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/happy.png" /> Any hints to get me started? Also one of the issues is that if I open the model which already have a thumbnail, change orientation and save it back (using one mapkey) it doesn't save because model is not actually changed. What I do is I manually "edit definition" of a datum plane without changing anything and save it. But I can't seem to add this trick (changing the definition of datum) to my mapkey <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":confused_face:">😕</span></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:13:23 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153219#M1053 pzago 2017-01-10T11:13:23Z Re: How to create or refresh thumbnails for a whole folder? https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153220#M1054 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can use for example PTC <A href="http://support.ptc.com/cs/tkdoc/Creo3/pfcvb">VB API</A> (free), <A href="http://support.ptc.com/cs/tkdoc/Creo3/protoolkit/creoparametrictoolkit_Creo">Pro/Toolkit</A> or <A href="http://support.ptc.com/cs/tkdoc/Creo3/otk_java_doc">Object Toolkit</A> (paid) or <A href="http://www.cogras.cz/Products/AutomationGateway">iTools Automation Gateway</A> (paid) if you know programming. Or we can develop it for you, it should not be much work when you know how to do it...</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:19:13 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153220#M1054 TomasLoun 2017-01-10T11:19:13Z Re: How to create or refresh thumbnails for a whole folder? https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153221#M1055 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE><TABLE border="1"><TBODY><TR><TD> <P>Also one of the issues is that if I open the model which already have a thumbnail, change orientation and save it back (using one mapkey) it doesn't save because model is not actually changed.</P> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE><P>If you set the config pro option "save_objects" to "changed_and_specified", Creo will let you save even if the model hasn't changed.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:47:15 GMT https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/t5/System-Administration/How-to-create-or-refresh-thumbnails-for-a-whole-folder/m-p/153221#M1055 TomU 2017-01-10T13:47:15Z