Install compounds and graphs
There are a couple of ways to install compounds or graphs built by others, such as files downloaded from the Bifrost Community Hub.
- For home use or personal projects, you can install them in your Bifrost user directory.
- For teams working with a shared library of compounds, you can install them to a shared location on a network or to a local copy of a shared repository.
In either case, you simply copy the files to the appropriate directory, and then restart the host application.
- For a compound, copy the .json file.
- For a graph, copy the folder containing the .json file and its supporting files.
Install to your Bifrost user directory
Your Bifrost user directory is the same location where the compounds that you publish are stored. Its location depends on your operating system:
- Windows: \Users\username\Autodesk\Bifrost\Compounds
- macOS: /Users/username/Autodesk/Bifrost/Compounds
- Linux: /home/username/Autodesk/Bifrost/Compounds
This directory might not exist if you have not published any compounds or graphs of your own yet. In that case, you can create it manually.
Install to a shared library
To install compounds and graphs that are shared with a team, first set up additional locations for compounds and graphs as described in Set up additional compound and graph locations. In particular, each member of the team needs to set the BIFROST_LIB_CONFIG_FILES environment variable to include the path of the configuration files.
Once the additional locations have been set up, you can install compounds and graphs by copying the files to any of the directories specified by the configuration files.