Preview Window
You can keep a Preview window open during a SolidWorks session to display a preview whenever you select a document on the File Explorer tab in the Task Pane.
To open a preview window in the SolidWorks client:
Right-click anywhere in the vault view or local view and select Preview Window.
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In the vault view, the window displays the document name, revision, and configuration. You can choose revisions and configurations from the Revision and Config lists.
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In the local view, the window displays the document name with its path.
To enable the preview windows in the SolidWorks Explorer client:
Select the Show Previews check box.
If a preview image is not available for a document, you either do not have permission to access the document or it is not a SolidWorks, Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint®, AutoDesk Inventor®, or AutoCAD® document. Only these types of documents, which are OLE documents, are available for preview.
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For Microsoft documents, click File, Properties and select Save preview picture.
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For documents from SolidWorks 2003 and previous releases, you might need to save the document with each configuration active to enable previews of the configurations.