Space Thumbnails

Generates preview thumbnails for 3D model files. Provide a Windows Explorer extensions that adds preview thumbnails for 3D model files.

Supported formats

• Wavefront Object (.obj)
• FBX-Format, as ASCII and binary (.fbx)
• Stereolithography (.stl)
• Collada (.dae)
• Stanford Polygon Library (.ply)
• glTF2.0 (.glb/.glTF)
• Extensible 3D (.x3d/.x3db)
• 3D Studio Max 3DS (.3ds)

Windows Explorer Extensions

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No thumbnails showing

Ensure thumbnails are generally enabled. Are thumbnails working with other file types on your system, e.g. photos? If not, you may have disabled them altogether.

1. open any folder

2. open the Folder Options

   • Windows 10: select View → Options → Change folder and search options

   • Windows 7: select Organize → Folder and search options

3. Select the View tab

4. in Advanced settings, make sure the Always show icons, never thumbnails option is not checked

Clear your thumbnail cache. This forces Explorer to request new thumbnails instead of relying on outdated data.

1. click the Start button and type cleanmgr.exe
2. select drive C: and confirm
3. check Thumbnails and confirm
4. reboot

Speed

Rendering thumbnails for 3D models may not be that fast. To keep your explorer smooth and available, we have made some limits here, if the model file size is larger than 300MB or takes longer than 5 seconds to load and render, it will be cancelled and display this image below.

If there is an error loading the file (corrupt or illegal file), it will display this image below.

Logs

Space Thumbnails saving the logs in Windows Events. To view the logs, you can open Event Viewer, right-click on the Custom Views folder in the left Console Tree, click Create Custom View.... and follow the steps below to create a custom view. You need to upload the logs here when you submit the issue.

Links

• google / filament: 3D rendering engine, and the rust bindings
• assimp: Asset import library, provides support for 3D file formats.
• Thanks to @Shomnipotence for the icon design.

License

© 2022 EYHN

Please see LICENSE.