Gavin, I tried parsing your urdf in cturlte , and that works fine. As Josh suggested, we'll need more information to help you debug this problem. It would also make it easier if you attached the (large) urdf file you are using. Wim On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Josh Faust wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:05 PM, wrote: >> >> Hey Everyone, >> I've been having some trouble with Rviz recently. I have just switched >> over from boxturtle to cturtle and the urdf model that was working in >> boxturtle stopped working in cturtle. What happens is whenever I launch my >> launch file for the urdf, the CPU usage shoots up to somewhere between 95 >> and 98%. When Rviz opens, it freezes up.  I've gone back and forth between >> boxturtle and cturtle and I never have this problem in boxturtle. Below, >> I'll show my urdf but I'm hesitant to release the meshes because they are >> not mine to post. >> > > What's in the launch file for your urdf?  Does that include starting rviz? >  Where is rviz frozen (backtrace)? > Josh > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- -- Wim Meeussen Willow Garage Inc.