[ros-users] Phobos: 3D robot modelling with Blender

[Séverin Lemaignan]

Hello Kai,

As one of the MORSE dev (a robotic simulator based on Blender, [1]), your work is of high interest for us.

Our main challenge, for now, is to *import* URDF into Blender, which is non trivial due to differences regarding how armatures are rendered (in particular, Blender does not easily allow for multiple DoFs per joint). Have you look into it (importing URDF) or are you only exporting URDF? (and in this
case, how do you manage joints with more than 1 DoF?)

Our design choices and progress regarding URDF import in Blender can be tracked here: https://github.com/morse-simulator/morse/issues/547

Cheers,
Severin

[1] http://morse-simulator.github.io/

On 14/10/14 16:12, Kai von Szadkowski wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm working with the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). We've recently decided to switch from our own data format to using URDF for the kinematic descriptions of our robots.
> 
> We already used the 3D modelling software Blender to create our models, exporting them using a bunch of python scripts as we didn't fancy creating models by hand. Building on these scripts, we have started to develop a full-blown add-on for Blender designed for simplifying robot model editing. It's
> called 'Phobos' and can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/rock-simulation/phobos
> 
> I haven't been able to track down anything comparable in the ROS and Gazebo world and figured this might be interesting for some people here. There's an overview in the README file on github and already some documentation explaining the overall concepts and how to get started. We're certainly far
> from delivering a bug-free "consumer product", but if somebody is interested and finds the time to take a glance, we're very happy for any feedback.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kai
> 
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