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I'm Currently at page 15 of Radiance Tutorial by Axel Jacbos. There's a part I don't understand:

Specifically, number 5: 'Create a file called furniture.rad from which you call xform to place a table in the scene and a couple of chairs around it. You'll find them in objects/table.rad'

xform hasn't been mentioned in the previous tutorials so I just searched for what the program does, apparently it applies transformations/rotations to an object. I'm not sure how to use xform in general, nor how to use it in this example.

Here's what I tried:

Inside objects/furniture.rad:
!C:\Radiance\bin\xform table >> furniture
!C:\Radiance\bin\xform chair >> furniture

Which is I know, probably wrong.

Apparently, objline is not available in Windows, so I use Honeybee for GH to view the rad files. And as expected, my rad files don't generate anything. I also tried importing the furniture and chair rad files but the Rhino viewport doesn't show anything.

What's the correct way to do it? Thanks.

I'm Currently at page 15 of Radiance Tutorial by Axel Jacbos. There's a part I don't understand:

Specifically, number 5: 'Create a file called furniture.rad from which you call xform to place a table in the scene and a couple of chairs around it. You'll find them in objects/table.rad'

xform hasn't been mentioned in the previous tutorials so I just searched for what the program does, apparently it applies transformations/rotations to an object. I'm not sure how to use xform in general, nor how to use it in this example.

Here's what I tried:

Inside objects/furniture.rad:
!C:\Radiance\bin\xform table >> furniture
!C:\Radiance\bin\xform chair >> furniture

I just called xform without any options because I'm assuming table and chair are already in the proper places? Which is I know, is probably wrong.

Apparently, objline is not available in Windows, so I use Honeybee for GH to view the rad files. And as expected, my rad files don't generate anything. I also tried importing the furniture and chair rad files but the Rhino viewport doesn't show anything.

What's the correct way to do it? Thanks.