How to select what to show in the standalone viewer?

[njourdane]

I'm having some issues related to #112 and it seems that the standalone viewer works well as a workaround.

But I only see the OCP logo (which is nice but not very helpful), how to select my actual parts from the viewer?

[bernhard-42]

Not sure I understand you fully, but you need to add from ocp_vscode import * and use show(obj1, ...) in your code.
It takes port 3939 as default. If you started the standalone with another port, use set_port(my_port) in your code

[njourdane]

Thank you. The standalone viewer is executed with the cli and doesn't take a file parameter.

If I have many Python files on the same folder from witch I run ocp_vscode, how the viewer can know what I want to see?

[bernhard-42]

The viewer listens on port 3939 for requests.
The show command tessellates CAD objects and sends the mesh to port 3939 of the viewer via websockets.
So viewer and code is completely decoupled. You can start the viewer where so ever and work on a project in another folder.
The only shared knowledge of the viewer and the show command is the websocket port 3939