Reading Packed Folder from Apex Edit Graph

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I am just messing around with Apex Edit Graph, and would like to read data from a packed folder and then just output it. I figure if I can do this, I can do a lot of cool things!

But, I am having trouble as the docs around this are a bit sparse.

In my example, I am packing a box as box.shp and then trying to read it in an APEX graph using sop::unpackfolder

This works correctly if I create a sop::box in my graph, but I can't seem to find a way to access the packed data. Obviously this is possible since the animate scene SOPs do this.

Help?

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you need to connect geoinput0 to Inputs/next port
then you can middle click and rename to whatever you want, like: geo
and on Apex Invoke add 1 Input Binding and check Bind To Geometry and type the same name

you can also additionally pass dictionary attribute with some values you want to have access in APEX
see example

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Thank you Tomas!!
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