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Enabling Hierarchical Visual Navigation
The Thumbnail generator creates 3D Thumbnail (*.PVT) files during the publishing of CAD assemblies using one of the following Thumbnail Generator configurations:
• By Worker—The worker callsPVSTHUMB after generating the viewables.
• By Loader—Pre-converted viewables are uploaded by the WVS Loader on to a new WVS representation.
• By Worker Agent—The WVS Loader is configured to use a worker of type THUMBNAIL.
To configure the WVS or the CAD Worker to automatically generate the required 3DThumbnail Images, follow the steps below, depending on the method you are using:
• By Worker
1. Set the Sub-thumbnail level option in the Miscellaneous Parameters for the Creo View Thumbnail Generator tab for the Thumbnail Generator to -1.
2. In the CAD worker’s Advanced > System tab, next to Thumbnail Recipe, browse to the thumbnail generator recipe file that you created.
• By Loader
1. Set the Sub-thumbnail level option in tthe Miscellaneous Parameters for the Creo View Thumbnail Generator tab for the Thumbnail Generator to -1.
2. Modify the PVSTHUMB command-line arguments, defined in the thumbnail.generator.nativecmd property value in wvs.properties, to point to the modified thumbnail generator recipe file. For example:
xconfmanager -p -t <path1>/wvs.properties -s"thumbnail.generator.
nativecmd=<Windchill>\wvs\bin\pvsthumb -r <path2>\<name>.rcp -vc -vL $
(wt.logs.dir)\thumbnail3d.log"
where:
<path1> is the path to where the wvs.properties file is located for your release.
<Windchill>is the Windchill home folder path.
<path2>\<name>is the path or name of the newly created thumbnail generator recipe file.
• By Worker Agent If using a Thumbnail Worker (thumbnail.usecadagent=true inwvs.properties):
Modify the settings in thepvsthumb.rcpthat resides in the THUMBNAIL worker's setup folder toinclude the Sub-thumbnail levelset to-1(all levels).
This should ensure that the 3D ThumbnailImages are generated for all newly published Creo View Representation structures and by Thumbnail regeneration WVS Scheduler Jobs.