Article - CS40384

Creo View Adapters: Thumbnail Generation by a Windchill worker is failing and timing out for CAD Drawings published to the PDF output format

Modified: 02-Nov-2022   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 12.1
  • Creo View Adapters 1.0 to 9.0
  • ProductView Adapters and Creo Elements/View Adapters 12.1 to 13.0
  • Visualization Services (WVS)

Description

  • 'By Worker' Thumbnail Generation performed by a CAD Worker is failing for PDF viewables of CAD Drawings, with the error:
Error:13022:Thumbnail generation failed
  • The thumbnail3d.log file under $(wt.logs.dir) may also contain the message:
Error:42019: Failed to generate thumbnail. Check the Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader installation.
  • The Thumbnail Generator process (pvsthumb.exe) becomes unresponsive and reports the following Windows Application log error:
exception code 0xc0000374
  • PDF publishing of Creo Parametric drawings times-out while generating thumbnail
  • Thumbnails are not created for Creo Parametric drawing files published in PDF format
  • The drawing file is published successfully to PDF, but a thumbnail is not generated
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