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MaiaBIM
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Dec 07, 2020

Unable to preview Thumbnail of Revit (.rfa) files on Sharepointe Online or local desktop synced fold

I am having an issue being able to preview thumbnail views of Revit families (.rfa)  on SharePoint online. We use SharePoint as cloud storage for our Revit library. Being able to preview thumbnail vi...
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jnengenharia2013
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Oct 27, 2024

Paul de JongSegue exemplo de família para estudar a possibilidade de mostrar a miniatura no Onedrive, nos ajudaria muito https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgpptnlP1RuRiNAjtzuwVk7Vp7-Rwg?e=j8bdzb 

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Paul_HK_de_Jong
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Oct 29, 2024

jnengenharia2013 
The thumbnail (png file) is present in the example file.

In principle the thumbnail can be extracted programmatically from rfa files. For example, in Explorer (SharePoint browser app using JavaScript https://www.slimapplications.com/product/explorer/) the logic can be extended to also view the png thumbnail in rfa files. I expect that the number of tools offering this functionality will be limited since the topic is not raised often and is also not on the Microsoft SharePoint feedback site (https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/06735c62-321c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472).
Note: this will only work in the browser and not in OneDrive for Business.

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