At the SGI prompt, run "insight" (/usr/sbin/insight) then type "Inventor" in the search window. items starting with 129 (Inventor Mentor) are an on-line version of the book.
Note that this book describes programming with the Inventor API, something we are *not* asking of you in any assignment.
We *are* asking you to understand and use the inventor node types -- Sphere, Cube, Transform, etc. to find descriptions of these on-line, you can use "man -k", for example
% man -k SoSphere
% man -k SoTransform
% man -k SoScale
etc; then from the returned list of man pages (say, SoTransform) you choose one to read:
% man SoTransform
These man pages list every settable field, and its default value, for each Inventor node type.
The tool "gview" (shown in class) has a menu pick (Node->Create) that lists every inventor node type and its fields.