uffutils 0.5.0

A set of commandline tools for manipulating UFF files.

UFF Utils

A modular tool for manipulating UFF datasets_

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UFF Utils is a command-line tool for inspecting and manipulating UFF files (e.g., take subsets, move, rotate, scale). For example, if you want to take a subset of every 1000th node, scale from m to mm, and inspect the resulting file, you can do:

uffutils subset in.uff subset.uff --step 1000
uffutils scale subset.uff scaled.uff --length 1000
uffutils inspect scaled.uff

For more functionality, see the description of each command below.

Installing

A good way to run UFF utils is through uv. Once you have installed uv, you can run uffutils like so:

uvx uffutils --help

No need for any additional software (e.g., Python); uv handles it for you.

The inspect command

The inspect command allows you to view the contents of a UFF file. Example usage:

uffutils inspect my_file.uff  # Print nice overview 
uffutils inspect my_file.uff --nodes # Print full list of nodes

The subset command

Allows you to create file with a subset of nodes, which is particularly useful if you want to downsize a UFF file. Usage:

uffutils subset in.uff out.uff --ids "1,2,3"  # Only takes nodes 1, 2 and 3
uffutils subset in.uff out.uff --step 1000  # Takes every 1000th node, starting at 1 
uffutils subset in.uff out.uff --max 100 # Takes the first 100 nodes 

Operations can be combined. The following operation yields a file with nodes 10 and 30.

uffutils subset in.uff out.uff `
    --selection "10,20,30,40,50"
    --step 2
    --max 2

The scale command

You can scale length:

uffutils scale in.uff out.uff --length 1000 

The move command

You can translate the data:

uffutils move in.uff out.uff --xyz 10.0 20.0 30.0 

The rotate command

You can rotate the data:

uffutils rotate in.uff out.uff --angles 90 90 90

Combining operations in a single command

You can combine commands through piping, like so:

uffutils subset in.uff --step 100 | `
    uffutils scale --length 1000 | `
    uffutils move --xyz 10 20 30 | `
    uffutils rotate - out.uff --xyz 90 0 0