USDGENSCHEMA(1)

💅 USDGENSCHEMA(1) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to usdGenSchema(1) — straight out of the User Commands section of the manual. this is the whole vibe, let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

usdGenSchema — literally the manual page for usdGenSchema 26.11.1, no cap 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

first up, the tool hits you with this big dramatic banner box before it even says hi. here it is verbatim, because it's iconic and also important:

#################################################################################################
#  USD_DISABLE_PRIM_DEFINITIONS_FOR_USDGENSCHEMA is overridden to
'true'.  Default is 'false'.  #
#################################################################################################

so yeah — that env var gets overridden to 'true', and the default is 'false'. noted 📌

then comes the usage line, serving full main-character energy:

usage: usdGenSchema [-h] [-v] [-q] [-n NAMESPACE [NAMESPACE ...]]

[-t TEMPLATEPATH] [-hts HEADERTERMINATORSTRING]
       [schemaPath] [codeGenPath]

and what does it actually do? it's giving code generator realness:

Generate C++ schema class code from a USD file. 🔥

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🎀 positional arguments 🎀

• schemaPath — the source USD file where your schema classes are defined. [Default: ./schema.usda] 📄
• codeGenPath — the target directory where the code should be generated, i.e. where all the magic lands. [Default: .] 📁

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👑 options 👑

• -h, --help — show this help message and then dip (exit). 🙈
• -v, --validate — verify that the source files are unchanged. like a vibe check, but for files ✨
• -q, --quiet — do not output text during execution. shhh, no yapping 🤫
• -n, --namespace NAMESPACE [NAMESPACE ...] — wrap the code in this specified namespace. multiple arguments get interpreted as a nested namespace. the leftmost argument is treated as the outermost namespace, and the rightmost argument is the innermost — so left = outside, right = inside, inny-outy energy 🧚
• -t, --templates TEMPLATEPATH — directory containing schema class templates. [Default: first directory that exists from this list: /build/usd /pkg/usd/usr/bin/codegenTemplates:/build/usd/pkg/usd/u sr/lib/usd/usd/resources/codegenTemplates] 🎀

💀 real talk: that default list is line-wrapped mid-word in the output — /build/usd/pkg/usd/u and sr/lib/usd/usd/resources/codegenTemplates are one path split across lines. don't come for me, I'm just the messenger. copy it from the actual output, iykyk.

• -hts, --headerTerminatorString HEADERTERMINATORSTRING — the string used to terminate generated C++ header files, after the custom code section. [Default: #endif] ⭐

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and that's the whole page, bestie — you ate that 🍓

signing off: usdGenSchema 26.11.1, dated October 2026, and yes the manual page itself is literally USDGENSCHEMA(1) — periodt 💜