A preview of the current view will be generated for the image. Defines the current view of the drawing as the home view.By checking this box the variable is set to 1 and a preview will be generated. This system variable replaces RASTERPREVIEW. The system variable that stores the thumbnail preview in the Windows registry is THUMBSAVE.The following list corresponds to the Red bullet numbers within Figure 2.

Figure 2 shows the standard dialog box when selecting the Thumbnail Preview Settings.įigure 2: Thumbnail Preview Setting Dialog Box We are now going to go through each section and explain what these variables and buttons control. Image resolution is still controlled by the THUMBSIZE system variable. Thumbnail previews are stored as PNG images, providing higher-quality thumbnail previews in a smaller file size. There you will find a button for Thumbnail Preview Settings.Ĭlick the Thumbnail Preview Settings as shown above.

Go into Tools and Option (or right-click in the command area) and move to the Open and Save tab. Have you ever looked at the drawing preview window or the view within the SSM (sheet set manager) and noticed that it does not display the correct drawing? There is a quick fix.

Autocad drawing view