Be advised, this will increase your file size. A lock on a node is essentially 
caching at that node.
If you must, I’d advised to collapse to subnets.

Andy


> On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:30 PM, Olivier Jeannel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ctrl click on the red (left side of the node (not the yellow) ) This will 
> lock the node like a "freeze". Everything above is computed and "locked".
> 
> 2017-02-20 22:19 GMT+01:00 Paulo Cesar Duarte <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Hey Pierre and Ed... 
> I'm starting with Houdini too, just studying SOP for now.
> There is a simple way to freeze modeling like XSI? Without the need of 
> caching geometry, just freezing or collapse?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 2017-02-10 19:48 GMT-02:00 Jordi Bares <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> A few thoughts of mine.. hope you don’t mind poking at those suggestions…
> 
>> On 3 Feb 2017, at 20:11, Ed Schiffer <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> hi Tim
>> I am just starting in Houdini as well and would be interested in a XSI Shelf 
>> tools.
> 
> Good idea
> 
>> for these particular issues you mentioned, you could match the Translate, 
>> Rotate, Scale and or Pivot using the icons on the right of these parameters. 
>> very useful!
> 
> You have matching of transformations but may be I could put together a few 
> Softimage friendly ones too…
> 
>> and on the Modify shelft tab you have the Center Pivot button as well.
> 
> You may not want that, I rather suggest you install qLib and you will have a 
> bunch of presets installed on normal translation nodes that allow you to do 
> the centroid quickly, also placing in the center of the world, on the floor, 
> etc...
> 
>> also, under the Pre-Transform dropdown at the top of the Transforms tab, you 
>> have Clean Transforms/Translate/Rotate/Scale with for my understanding are 
>> basic as the Freeze in XSI. when you Extract these you get your global 
>> transforms and when you Reset them you'd be setting the Pre-Transforms back 
>> to zero…
> 
> The pretransforms are like XSI neutral pose
> 
> Regarding Freeze… that is one of the things you may not want to inherit in 
> Houdini. Although at first made sense to me once I got a bit more under the 
> bonnet it was obvious that you can do it without having to rely on freezing. 
> Either by saving to disk, storing the resulting network on the scene or other 
> means.
>> 
>> hope that makes sense, I thought it to be very straightforward. Houdini is 
>> very rewarding to learn, hope you enjoy.
> 
> :-)
> jb
> 
>> 
>> cheers
>> 
>> On 3 February 2017 at 15:12, Tim Bolland <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hey, I'm currently taking a good look at Houdini as an application moving 
>> forward and I'm wondering if anyone has or uses any custom scripts to mimic 
>> some of the more used functions of Softimage. I'm thinking of things such as 
>> "Match All Transforms" and "Move Center to Vertices". General workflow 
>> commands you realise you miss when you jump into new software, I can imagine 
>> a script savvy guy out there must have whipped up custom shelf as soon as 
>> the program opened <OutlookEmoji-😉.png>. Any information would be hugely 
>> appreciated. 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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