Example of how to embed a simple USD viewport in Qt application

usdviewport_qt.py

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"""

import sys
from PySide import QtGui, QtCore
from pxr import Usd, UsdUtils, Sdf
from pxr.Usdviewq.stageView import StageView

app = QtGui.QApplication([])

class Widget(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, stage=None):
        super(Widget, self).__init__()
        self.model = StageView.DefaultDataModel()
        
        self.view = StageView(dataModel=self.model,
                              printTiming=True)
        
        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self)
        layout.addWidget(self.view)
        layout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        
        if stage:
            self.setStage(stage)
        
    def setStage(self, stage):
        self.model.stage = stage
                              
    def closeEvent(self, event):
        
        # Ensure to close the renderer to avoid GlfPostPendingGLErrors
        self.view.closeRenderer()
        

# Load kitchen set
path = r"path/to/Kitchen_set/Kitchen_set.usd"
with Usd.StageCacheContext(UsdUtils.StageCache.Get()):
    stage = Usd.Stage.Open(path)

window = Widget(stage)
window.setWindowTitle("USD Viewer")
window.resize(QtCore.QSize(750, 750))
window.show()

# Make camera fit the loaded geometry
window.view.updateView(resetCam=True, forceComputeBBox=True)

app.exec_()

Original snippet of this gist updated to PySide2 by Thorsten Kaufmann (originally posted on Academy Software Foundation slack channel)

import sys
from PySide2 import QtGui, QtCore, QtWidgets
from pxr import Usd, UsdUtils, Sdf
from pxr.Usdviewq.stageView import StageView

app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])

class Widget(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, stage=None):
        super(Widget, self).__init__()
        self.model = StageView.DefaultDataModel()
        
        self.view = StageView(dataModel=self.model)
        
        layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self)
        layout.addWidget(self.view)
        layout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        
        if stage:
            self.setStage(stage)
        
    def setStage(self, stage):
        self.model.stage = stage
                              
    def closeEvent(self, event):
        
        # Ensure to close the renderer to avoid GlfPostPendingGLErrors
        self.view.closeRenderer()
        

path = r"<path_to_usd>"
with Usd.StageCacheContext(UsdUtils.StageCache.Get()):
    stage = Usd.Stage.Open(path)

window = Widget(stage)
window.setWindowTitle("USD Viewer")
window.resize(QtCore.QSize(750, 750))
window.show()

# Make camera fit the loaded geometry
window.view.updateView(resetCam=True, forceComputeBBox=True)

app.exec_()

Hello @BigRoy, Thank you so much for providing this example code. It helped me get started making a PySide6 USD Hydra project.

You can find it as a test project here:
https://github.com/natestrong/hydra-usd-pyside-viewer