ivinfo(1)

💖 ivinfo — the manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ivinfo(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual. she's a lil command, she's lowkey iconic, and she's about to tell you everything about your Inventor files. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ivinfo — prints information about Inventor files 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ivinfo [-h] [file]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. so simple, so clean, main character energy fr fr.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea ☕ — ivinfo prints information about the named file, and it prints it to standard output. and if you don't hand her an input file at all? she just reads from standard input instead. she's flexible like that. 🫶

and what info does she spill? she tells you:

• whether the file is in ASCII or binary format 📝
• and for each scene graph in the file: the number of nodes in the graph, plus the contents of any SoInfo nodes contained in it. 👑

like. she's giving you the whole rundown. the full lore. obsessed. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

the following command line options are allowed — yes, it's a short list, she's a minimalist, don't come for her:

• -h — prints out the usage for the command. that's the whole thing. just a lil help me out moment. 💖

🌈 SOURCE CODE 🌈

note that the source code to ivinfo comes with the Open Inventor 3d Toolkit. so if you wanna peek under the hood, that's where she lives. iykyk. 🔥

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/share/data/models/* — sample 3D data files 🦋 (snacks. lil treats. go look at them.)
• /usr/share/src/Inventor/tools/ivinfo/* — source to ivinfo 💅 (the origin story, bestie)

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go check out her friends, they're all iconic in their own right:

gview, inventor, ivcat, ivview, drop, maze, noodle, qmorf, revo, showcase, textomatic

a whole squad. a whole friend group. periodt. 💜

and that's the page, bestie — brought to you by the General Commands Manual, signed sealed and delivered as ivinfo(1). stay curious, stay slaying, and go read some Inventor files. 🧚✨💖