All,
The ROS-Industrial Consortium is proposing a project that I think is of great interest to the broader ROS Community: Conversion of CAD data to ROS-interpretable file types (e.g. URDF, SRDF). This is a very common problem for many ROS users,
without an automated solution that I am aware of. For more details, see
http://rosindustrial.org/news/2015/7/20/proposed-cad-to-ros-focused-technical-project
If you are interested to learn more about the project goals or participating, please reach out to myself.
Shaun Edwards
Senior Research Engineer
Manufacturing System Department
http://rosindustrial.swri.org/
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