Robert Magee

Sign into the Orbolt website then use this link:

https://www.orbolt.com/upgrade-houdini-files [www.orbolt.com]

Tinkering with the dissolve tool there are a couple things to watch out for. It only works on boundary edges therefore you may need to delete the polygons beside the edge you want to extract - that is if you are trying to get edges or loops “inside” a topology. The second step would then be to select the boundry edges you want(either by hand or with a group) and then press delete (which creates a dissolve sop). On the Dissolve SOP, set Operation to Delete Non-Selected and then set Remove Inline points to OFF - this is especially important if you selected a loop because then ALL the points are inline points and you will see nothing. If you do these steps you should be OK:

At the moment, our support for the Amazon cloud has been suspended. You can find details here:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/render/cloudfarm [www.sidefx.com]

The page being found by the search is an old FAQ that was put into draft mode when the information was incorporated into the docs.