Changing Thumbnail Properties in codebase and installed.properties

To disable the 3D thumbnail image display, set the WVS.ThumbnailViewer property in the installed.properties file to a value of false. To do this, perform the following procedure:

1. Open the <Windchill_Home>\site.xconf file in a text editor.

2. Locate the following entry:

3. Change the property value at the end of the string to false.

4. Propagate this change to the installed.properties file by running the command "xconfmanager -p" in a Windchill shell.

5. Restart the Windchill MethodServers.

To disable the generation of 3D thumbnail images, modify the recipe file used to control the configuration of the Thumbnail Generator. To do this, perform the following procedure:

1. Locate the Thumbnail Generator native command and its related recipe file. For a local Thumbnail Generator, the location of the native command is identified by the value of the thumbnail.generator.nativecmd property in the <Windchill_Home>/codebase/WEB-INF/conf/wvs.properties file for Windchill 10.2 and later, or <Windchill_Home>\codebase\wvs.properties file for earlier releases. This defaults to <Windchill_Home>\wvs\bin\pvsthumb.exe. The Recipe file will, therefore, be located relative to this, in the <Windchill_Home>\wvs\recipe folder, called pvsthumb.pvr.

2. Open the recipe file in a text editor and change the value of the adapter/createModel setting to 0 (zero), i.e., adapter/createModel=0.

3. Save the file and restart the Windchill MethodServers.

If you re-enable viewing of the 3D thumbnail image, after disabling its generation, the display will default to the 2D thumbnail image for those representations that do not have a 3D thumbnail image as content. To fix this execute the WVS Publish Scheduler Jobs named RegenerateRepresentationThumbnails and RegenerateLatestRepresentationThumbnails.