Way to get viewer pain to show shell thumbnail instead of text for certain files?

is there a way to get the text viewer plugin to ignore certain file types?

I cant figure out a way to get it to show the preview on certain file types without disabling it, specifically .stp and .step files.

with text viewer plugin enabled:

with it disabled:

Try adding *.stl to Preferences / Viewer / Viewer Pane / Exclusion List (and click Apply).

Thank you, I was on 13.16 and I don't think that functionality existed yet.

actually now it appears to just show nothing, I want it to just show the shell previews if thats possible

Which software have you installed to get the STL thumbnails?

its called f3d.exe , its for .stp and step, stl's previews work fine.

Thanks, we'll see if we can add a workaround.

sounds good, thank you

In the next beta, the Text plugin will be changed so it no longer considers .stl files text, which should solve this.