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Hi folks,
I need some help with something myself today.
I want to have Octane load an .obj by command line.
The instruction would come from a Shell statement in a vba macro running in Solidworks.
My question is, must I have a .ocs just to load it? and how does the command look C:/..../octane.exe - this.obj ... ?
Its not clear to me from reading the manual what the command should be.
I don't want to have Octane render, just load the .obj automatically so I can tweak materials, camera view etc and then I will start the final rendering manually when I am happy.
Thanks

Page 134 of the manual

For example, to open a file (C:\Temp\OctaneTest.ocs),
relink the geometry (C:\Temp\NewGeometry.obj), select
the meshnode (OctaneTest.obj) and render the
frame for 1000 samples per pixel, save the render and
exit:

Yeah but that's if you have a .ocs
Can I load a .obj without one?
I'm confused, maybe I should just try it...

Use: octane -l C:\Temp\NewGeometry.obj

Use the -l option to create a new mesh node. If you specify an OCS file and use -r and -m, the OBJ file is loaded into an existing mesh node.

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Roeland

OK thanks.
This seems to work only when the .obj file is on the C: drive. Is that right?
Would be handy if could use other drives as well

It should work no matter on which station the file is located. Just give a correct relative or absolute pathname to the OBJ file. (e.g. D:\somewhere\geometry.obj, or ..\somewhereelse\test.obj).

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Roeland

Hmmmm, OK my bad. I found it won't work with spaces in the .obj path....
A bit inconsistant because the first part of the command with the path to the Octane.exe had spaces.
Be nice if I didnt have to have underscores because I have a lot of files with spaces.
Thanks for the help

You need to make sure your shell doesn't cut filenames with spaces into multiple arguments. Under most shells you need to put these filenames between quotes.

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Roeland

OK thanks again
I am a beginner in vba
experiments.......