NAME¶

ivcat - concatenates and converts Inventor files

SYNOPSIS¶

ivcat [-bfht] [-o file] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION¶

ivcat reads each file in sequence and then writes each out. If no input file is given, or a filename of "-" is specified, ivcat reads from the standard input file. The input files must be valid Open Inventor 3D Interchange Format files (1.0 or 2.0).

The following command line options are allowed:

-b

Write out the files in binary Inventor format. The default is to write out the files in Inventor's ASCII format.

-f

Remove all SoFile nodes. This has the effect of condensing hierarchical files into a single file.

-h

Print usage message.

-o file

Send the output to the given file, instead of to the standard output.

-t

Expand SoTexture2 nodes to explictly include the texture data rather than a file name.

EXAMPLES¶

To convert from binary to ASCII Inventor

ivcat < binaryfile.iv > asciifile.iv

To convert from ASCII to binary Inventor:

ivcat -b < asciifile.iv > binaryfile.iv

SOURCE CODE¶

Note that the source code to ivcat comes with the Open Inventor 3d Toolkit.

FILES¶

/usr/share/data/models/* - Sample Inventor data files /usr/share/src/Inventor/tools/ivcat/* - Source to ivcat

SEE ALSO¶

inventor, ivview, noodle, SceneViewer, gview