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Hi,

I was wondering if it'd be possible to get the newly created object of an imported volume file.

Basically, I import a volume file with the import_volume() method, which returns the context that contains the volume file for some reason, while I was expecting to get the volume file object instead so that I can rename it and set some of its attributes.

Any idea on how I could get the volume file object?

In the meantime, I was also wondering why we need to use the IOHelpers API - ix.api.IOHelpers.import_volume() - while we can simply do ix.reference_file() for importing a reference file. I tried importing a volume file with ix.import_volume() but got an argument error.

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TypeError: import_volume() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

Thanks,
Jeremy

Hi Sam,

I did look at the IOHelpers doc and this is how I found out about the import_volume() method returning the context instead of the volume file object, and was therefore curious to ask about it.

Maybe this is something you could improve indeed.

I was thinking to get it by getting the objects of the context with the get_objects() method, but adding the volume file to a given context with add_object() and set its filename attribute seems to be a good workaround to me and does work fine.

Thanks for your advice,
Jeremy

Ok thanks for the info Sam.

Quick questions though regarding your comment:

So you should use this when creating items in Clarisse.

- if add_object() works fine for importing a volume file, do you mean that it'd be better use rather than reference_file() for importing an alembic file?
- and generally speaking, will you use add_object() instead of create_object(), or it doesn't really make a difference?

Thanks,
Jeremy

Oh yes that's right, I was simply curious to see if we could use add_object() for alembic files just as the same way we could for volume files, but yes since there's no such object type for alembic files as they are created as contexts, we have no choice to use reference_file() then, which I'll keep using.

Ok thanks for the create_object() vs add_object() info.

Jeremy