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

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