Imorting OBj houdini indi

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I'm having trouble importing .obj files into Houdini. 90% of the time it doesn't work and the file node will say "unable to read file". I have tried checking the mesh in modo and running a mesh cleanup, exporting another .obj. But these files don't import into Houdini either. I have been opening the obj files in Modo and saving them as an alembic which Houdini doesn't have a problem opening. I'm wondering what is wrong here. I'm running an indie license but I don't think there are import restrictions. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a way to prepare the .obj file for import?

 

thanks

[Atom]

There is no need to prepare an OBJ for import. Can you post an example OBJ file that fails to load on your Windows machine?

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Thanks, The attached file for instance causes an error in the file node. 

KANGAROOexport.OBJ

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Yes Windows

[rbowden]

Got it to load with Houdini 15.0.416 just fine.

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rbowden, thanks for trying that.

I just tried it with 15.5.480, 15.5.632, and 15.5.673. All with the same result. I don't think it's the version of Houdini that i'm running. 

Does anyone have an idea how I can get it working properly?

Thank you

[rbowden]

So humor me on this...I see you have some spaces in your file path (3d models, DOSCH 3D - Animals). Get rid of the spaces in your file name or just move that obj over to a temp directory that doesn't have any spaces in the file path. See if that works...I have had instances where it would error out with spaces in the file path.

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YES! And, i feel dumb. I moved a few files to the desktop and the they all import. Not all of them have spaces in the file path. But some had some other characters in the path that I guess don't work with Houdini. 

I just need to clean up my screwy file paths. 

Thank you very much for your help.