Cláudio Hickstein

here's a few tips.
- from the cmd line and assuming you're running from Houdini command line:

run hython

# load a specific hip file, not mandatory, you could either save
# to a specific path after add your nodes and setup your scene.

hou.hipFile.load('/path/to/any_hipfile_path.hip')

# create a geo node at object level
geo = hou.node('/obj').createNode('geo')

# alembic sop created inside geo
abc = geo.createNode('alembic')

# setting alembic_sop to a specific path
abc.parm('fileName').set('/path/to/alembic.abc')

hou.hipFile.save()

# and back to console
exit()

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From the command line, hython can interpret multiple arguments to load data dynamically.
and of course you could create an HDA, submit a render to the farm, execute simulation, so on.

I hope that helps to clarify things.

btw, it's working pretty fine with Hou18 py3 tech prev. I just installed it using pip.

It works for me. Houdini fx 16.0.736