Viewing GDL Objects in Windows Explorer

[Anonymous]

When I go into Windows Explorer and look at GDL objects in the thumbnail view, all I get is a generic icon. I have seen on someone else's computer thumbnails of the actual objects. Does anyone know what setting I have to change or what program I need to make this work? Thank you.

[David Larrew]

Is ArchiCAD installed on the PC that you are trying to view the .GSM file as thumbnail?

Are you able to see other file-types (that have preview abilities) as thumbnails?

[david nicholson-cole]

Nick wrote:
When I go into Windows Explorer and look at GDL objects in the thumbnail view, all I get is a generic icon. I have seen on someone else's computer thumbnails of the actual objects. Does anyone know what setting I have to change or what program I need to make this work? Thank you.

View the object in 3D, photorender it, capture a SQUARE 2D marquee of that view, Copy,
then open the object, open the preview window, and Paste, it will be resized to 128x128 or near enough and will be your preview in GDL and your icon in the Browser.
(this may not work on older OS's but it works on OSX Mac and Windows XP PC)

[Anonymous]

David,

I am getting a QuickTime preview in all my library parts rather than the correct pictures or GS icons in OSX. Do you (or anyone else) know how to fix this?

[david nicholson-cole]

Matthew wrote:
I am getting a QuickTime preview in all my library parts rather than the correct pictures or GS icons in OSX. Do you (or anyone else) know how to fix this?

I am in 9.2 at the moment, so will have to check OSX. Previews work perfectly in windows XP, needless to say.
On windows, .GSMis also used for a form of movie and often get given quicktime icons. Are you saying that this happens in OSX too?

[Oleg]

Nick wrote:
When I go into Windows Explorer and look at GDL objects in the thumbnail view, all I get is a generic icon. I have seen on someone else's computer thumbnails of the actual objects. Does anyone know what setting I have to change or what program I need to make this work? Thank you.

May be you need to register GS shell extension.
Read on it in the "Graphisoft Shell Extension" folder inside ArchiCAD folder.

Oleg.

[Anonymous]

david wrote:
On windows, .GSMis also used for a form of movie and often get given quicktime icons. Are you saying that this happens in OSX too?

Yes. I actually have yet to see proper previews in the OSX Finder. They work fine in the open file dialog in ArchiCAD though.

[Anonymous]

Go into Folder options/file types in explorer and change the GSM type to archicad instead of quicktime. Mine was the same.

[Anonymous]

This is fine for windows, anyone kwow how to fix it on the Mac?

[Anonymous]

i have the same problem (Windows 7), any ideas?