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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