# Plug-in for viewing CAD thumbnails inside Dopus

**URL:** <https://resource.dopus.com/t/plug-in-for-viewing-cad-thumbnails-inside-dopus/1946>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/plug-in-for-viewing-cad-thumbnails-inside-dopus/1946 "2006-05-10T21:06:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/plug-in-for-viewing-cad-thumbnails-inside-dopus/1946/4 "2006-06-04T22:15:41Z")

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Typo, thanks for starting this thread. I joined this DOpus forum with a few questions I hoped to find answers to, and "How do I view .dxf and .dwg thumbnails?" was the most important.

Besides viewing CAD thumbnails, what do you see if you try to look at a CAD file in the DOpus Lister Viewer pane?

The reason I'm curious is that a couple of months ago I installed the "Free Brava DWG Viewer"

[http://www.infograph.com/products/dwgviewer/DWGdownload1.asp](http://www.infograph.com/products/dwgviewer/DWGdownload1.asp)

which I learned about in a DOpus forum thread from 2005:

[url][Autocad Dwg Viewer Plugin](https://resource.dopus.com/t/autocad-dwg-viewer-plugin/449/1)]

In the thread linked above, someone pointed out the program, calling it a "dwg Desktop and ActiveX viewer," but they said they had not tried it.

I have installed it & can confirm it works with Directory Opus 8.

Now I can preview my .dwg files and zoom in and out, but in thumbnail view mode, the thumbnails were the default icon, and didn't really show a true thumbnail of each specific file.

Now that I've installed the "CAD Preview Image" program you linked above, I can now also see thumbnails of these .dwg files.

So, thank you! 🙂

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