I've tried doing things like

node.type().definition().copyToHDAFile('Embedded', ‘nodename’)

and

otwrite Sop/nodetypename Embedded

both with no luck…


Anyone know of a way to do this?

Not sure what you're seeing but node.type().definition().copyToHDAFile('Embedded') worked fine for me.

aha, was going to quickly and didn't realize that the newname was optional. Thanks Graham! While I've got you here - quick way to switch so that all of the nodes of that type in the file use the embedded definition?

You need to then get the asset definition from Embedded at set it to be preferred. Something like this:
for definition in hou.hda.definitionsInFile(“Embedded”):
definition.setIsPreferred(True)

awesome. Thanks and say hello to Bowmar for me.