Shahmi,

You probably won't need to write any nodes. To visualize your data, you will
need a node to communicate with the laser driver and publish the scans, and
then rviz to visualize them. If your laser is a Hokuyo or a SICK, there is
support for them in the laser_drivers stack:

http://www.ros.org/wiki/laser_drivers

Ivan

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Ugo Cupcic <ugo@shadowrobot.com> wrote:

>  Do you have a node publishing the cloud point?
>
> To run rviz, you just need to run:
> > rosrun rviz rviz
>
> You should have a look at: http://www.ros.org/wiki/rviz/UserGuide
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ugo
>
>
> On 20/10/10 12:45, shahmi wrote:
>
>   Hi all,
>
> I would like know, do we need to write a node in order to run RVIZ package.
> I actually want to visualize data  from laser scanner via RVIZ. Is it
> possible to run it even without any node written.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Shahmi
>
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