ASSIMP Command-line tools

Introduction

This document describes the usage of assimp's command line tools. This is not the SDK reference and programming-related stuff is not covered here.

NOTE: For simplicity, the following sections are written with Windows in mind. However it's not different for Linux/Mac at all, except there's probably no assimp.exe ...

Basic use

Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory where assimp.exe resides. The basic command line is:

assimp [command] [parameters]

The following commands are available:

version	Retrieve the current version of assimp
help	Get a list of all commands (yes, it's this list ...)
dump	Generate a human-readable text dump of a model
extract	Extract an embedded texture image
info	Load a model and print basic statistics
cmpdump	Regression checking tool

If you use assimp's command line frequently, consider adding assimp to your PATH environment.