PDC_Export

To build the example on Windows

1. Open an Softimage command prompt, and type devenv to start Visual Studio .NET.

   Starting Visual Studio .NET from an Softimage command prompt ensures that environment variables such as XSISDK_ROOT are set (otherwise you'll get build and link errors).

   Tip To load the PDC_Export project from the command line, type:

   devenv PDC_Export\PDC_Export.vcproj

2. In Visual Studio .NET, open the project file .vcproj.
3. Select a configuration (Release or Debug) and build the DLL.

To build the example on Linux

1. In a shell (tcsh) window, type:

   source $XSI_HOME/.xsi_<xsi_version>

2. Change directories to

   cppsrc_PDC_Export

3. To remove all intermediate files before building the example, run this command:

   gmake clean

4. To compile the example, run this command:

   gmake

To install the example

• Connect to the Softimage SDK workgroup at %XSISDK_ROOT%\examples\workgroup.

  1. In the Plug-in Manager, click the Workgroups tab.
  2. Click File and then click Connect.
  3. In the Connect to Workgroup dialog box, click , locate the workgroup folder and then click Select.

To view the help page for an example

• Do one of the following:
• In the Plug-in Tree, expand the SDK examples workgroup, right-click the example add-on and then click Help.
• Open a Net View and click to go to Softimage Net local. In the top navigation bar, click add-ons, and then click the SDK example add-on.

To run the exporter example

1. On the main Softimage menubar, click on File, then on Preferences and finally on Simulation to open up the simulation preferences.
2. In the FileName field, change the extension of the file to .PDC.
3. Create any geometry (PolygonMesh,PointCloud,etc).
4. On the Animate toolbar, click on Plot, then on Cache Manager....
5. Click on Write Cache to write out the files.

Keywords

This example uses the following keywords:

import, export, ascii, cache, xml, example, c++