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Project Preview not working with El Capitan?

Stress Co_
Advisor
Just read Jared Banks Blog on PROJECT PREVIEW
and found it doesn't seem to work with El Capitan.

The preview doesn't appear in: the Finder Window,
Cover Flow, Thumbnail Views or Get Info preview.

On top of that, the pasted images are blurry and distorted.

Bug?

Screen Shot 2016-07-20 at 8.27.28 PM.png
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)
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JaredBanks
Mentor
Marc,

I just noticed this today as well. I think it actually has to do with ARCHICAD 20. It worked fine for me on 10.11.5 with ARCHICAD 19. But when I installed ARCHICAD 20 this week (I was moving slow to transition) I noticed all my custom project previews reverted to the default ARCHICAD 20 file image. And I can't get the project preview to work either. Super annoying! I was creating my custom project preview for my new Shoegnome Open Template v20 when I found out this glitch.

Sigh.

Hopefully it's easily resolved with a hotfix.

Jared
Jared Banks, AIA
Shoegnome Architects

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Stress Co_
Advisor
A good blog post nonetheless, Jared.

I've reported it as a bug.
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)
JaredBanks
Mentor
So have I! Glad you liked the post. Looking forward to it working again.

BTW, for those interested here's the post we're talking about:

http://blog.graphisoftus.com/archicad-education/tips-and-tricks/project-preview-archicad-and-bimx
Jared Banks, AIA
Shoegnome Architects

Archicad Blog: www.shoegnome.com
Archicad Template: www.shoegnome.com/template/
Archicad Work Environment: www.shoegnome.com/work-environment/
Archicad Tutorial Videos: www.youtube.com/shoegnome
Katalin Borszeki
Graphisoft
Graphisoft
Hi All,
This is a bug, connected to the QuickLook Satellite plug-in. It will be corrected in update no.4009.
tx,
Katalin Borszeki
Implementation Specialist
GRAPHISOFT

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com - the ArchiCAD knowledge base
JaredBanks
Mentor
Excellent! Thank you.
Jared Banks, AIA
Shoegnome Architects

Archicad Blog: www.shoegnome.com
Archicad Template: www.shoegnome.com/template/
Archicad Work Environment: www.shoegnome.com/work-environment/
Archicad Tutorial Videos: www.youtube.com/shoegnome
Stress Co_
Advisor
KatalinBorszeki wrote:
Hi All,
This is a bug, connected to the QuickLook Satellite plug-in. It will be corrected in update no.4009.
I still get a distorted preview on the BIMx Model Transfer site.
Again, the preview is a 320 x 240 .jpg

Are there alternate methods to add BIMx previews
(other than using "Project Preview")?

EDIT:
I get the same distorted image in the
"Project Preview Picture Window".
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)