ivCat tool

ivcat - concatenates and converts Open 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, 2.0, 2.1, 8.0).

ivCat is the simplest way to convert file to different header version file format, in order to get compatible files when converting back to 2.1 version for example, or to get better performance by converting to new 8.0 file format.

USAGE:

The following command line options are allowed:

-b	Write out the files in binary Open Inventor format. The default is to write out the files in Open 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.
-s header	allow to convert to a new or previous header string format.
-t	Expand SoTexture2 nodes to explictly include the texture data rather than a file name.

EXAMPLES

To convert from binary to ASCII Open Inventor:

   ivcat binaryfile.iv > asciifile.iv

To convert from ASCII to binary Open Inventor:

   ivcat -b asciifile.iv > binaryfile.iv

To convert to new 8.0 ASCII Open Inventor:

   ivCat -s "#Inventor V8.0 binary" -o outputFile.iv inputFile.iv

To convert back to 2.1 ASCII Open Inventor:

   ivCat -s "#Inventor V2.1 ascii" -o outputFile.iv inputFile.iv

FILES:

• tools/source/ivCat/ivCat.cxx
• tools/source/ivCat/getopt/getopt.c
• tools/source/ivCat/getopt/getopt.h