Thinking a bit further I'm guessing you want rviz to be able to read Collada
instead of the urdf format, not just the mesh data?  That's not covered by
that ticket.

Josh

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Josh Faust <jfaust@willowgarage.com>wrote:

> 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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