[ros-users] importing collada into rviz

[Rosen Diankov]

hi tim,

Thanks for the response! You are correct that a COLLADA->URDF
converter would be the most applicable across the ROS framework. URDF
changed a lot since i last played with it, so this is not a project
that will take me a short time to do. It will also be great if this
converter was maintained by the devs  knowledgeable with URDF rather
than someone outside since URDF will continue to evolve, and someone
needs to actively maintain the converters.

for now we'll wait on the integration of our robots with rviz and WG's
controller infrastructure.
thanks,
rosen,

2010/4/20 Tim Field <tfield at willowgarage.com>:
> Writing a converter from COLLADA to URDF would be a better idea.  That way,
> ROS tools other than rviz would be able to use the model.
>
> That project isn't a short-term goal here, i.e. it won't be in C-turtle.
> Contributions are more than welcome, though.
>
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Josh Faust <jfaust at willowgarage.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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 at 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 at 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,
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> ros-users mailing list
>>>> ros-users at code.ros.org
>>>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ros-users mailing list
>> ros-users at code.ros.org
>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ros-users mailing list
> ros-users at code.ros.org
> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>
>