A good place to start for general help on our software pages: SCV software help page
We have an IDL Tutorial
To run the examples - start IDL in this directory. Then use ".run" to execute the procedure, e.g. % idl IDL> .run pro/shade_surf.pro The workflow examples given in the workshop are: sphscan.pro - generates a .obj file with no color info sphscan_intens.pro - generates an output file suitable for input to OpenGL and OpenSceneGraph examples sphscan_mtl.pro - generates a .obj file which, when taken with an appropraite .mtl file and colormap image can be used to assign vertex color