I have a ticket to support it, but it's unlikely to happen in time for 1.2:
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/3930

In the meantime I'd suggest converting the meshes into STL or Ogre .mesh
format.

Josh

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Rosen Diankov <rosen.diankov@gmail.com>wrote:

> hi all,
>
> There are several requests to display openrave robots in rviz. Since
> openrave can export its robots to COLLADA, and recently robot_models
> has started exporting collada, do you think it is possible to add an
> import collada module to urdf? Another solution is to just get ogre to
> display collada files
> (http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Ogre_COLLADA_Plugin)
> please advise on what to do.
>
> thanks!
> rosen,
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