VDB_VIEW(1)

🦋 VDB_VIEW(1) — the girlies' guide to peeking at OpenVDB grids ✨

okay so bestie, vdb_view is a User Command and honestly? it's giving main character energy. 💅 it's the little program that displays OpenVDB grids for you. that's literally the whole job. she shows up, she shows you your grids, she slays.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vdb_view file.vdb [file.vdb ...] [options]

yes you can feed her more than one file. she's flexible like that. 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like — Which: displays OpenVDB grids. Options: are down below, no worries.

• -i — print grid information, bestie. she'll spill the tea about what's inside 📋
• -h, -help — print this usage message and exit. the "help me help you" flag 🥺
• -version — print version information. she tells you what era she's from ✨

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🎀 Controls: 🎀

this is where it gets fun. keyboard and mouse moves, all of them, no cap:

• Esc — exit. bye bestie! 👋
• → (Right) — show next grid. on to the next one, we don't dwell 💅
• ← (Left) — show previous grid. okay actually we do dwell a little 🙈
• 1 — toggle tree topology view on/off. 🌳 on and off, on and off
• 2 — toggle surface view on/off. surfaces coming and going ✨
• 3 — toggle data view on/off. the data!! let her show you the data 📊
• G — ("geometry") look at center of geometry. G for "get a load of this geometry" 👑
• H — ("home") look at origin. home is where the origin is 🏠
• I — toggle on-screen grid info on/off. the info overlay, she comes and goes 💖
• left mouse — tumble. spin that baby around, it's giving gymnastics 🤸
• right mouse — pan. scooting her across the screen 🚗
• mouse wheel — zoom. in and out and in and out 🔍
• X + wheel — move right cut plane. slicing on the X axis, right side ✂️
• Shift + X + wheel — move left cut plane. other side of the slice, no crumbs left 💜
• Y + wheel — move top cut plane. snipping the top 🍰
• Shift + Y + wheel — move bottom cut plane. and the bottom too 🌈
• Z + wheel — move front cut plane. front row seats 🎟️
• Shift + Z + wheel — move back cut plane. back of the house, still iconic 🏡
• Ctrl + X + wheel — move both X cut planes. two at once, she's efficient 💅
• Ctrl + Y + wheel — move both Y cut planes. double the slicing, double the vibe ⭐
• Ctrl + Z + wheel — move both Z cut planes. and yes, all three axes have a both-mode, periodt 🔥

ngl there's also an -i flag up top if you just want the grid info printed without the whole visual moment. options, bestie. we love options. 🧚

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). thank you for your service, legend, we owe you everything 🙇‍♀️🌸

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and that's the whole page fr fr 💅 this was vdb_view 10.0.1 from August 2026 (VDB_VIEW(1), if we're being official about it) — go look at some grids bestie, you deserve it 💖✨🦋