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<p class="MsoNormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 <a href="http://rosindustrial.org/news/2015/7/20/proposed-cad-to-ros-focused-technical-project">
http://rosindustrial.org/news/2015/7/20/proposed-cad-to-ros-focused-technical-project</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you are interested to learn more about the project goals or participating, please reach out to myself.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Shaun Edwards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Senior Research Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Manufacturing System Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://robotics.swri.org"><span style="color:blue">http://robotics.swri.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://rosindustrial.swri.org/"><span style="color:blue">http://rosindustrial.swri.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://ros.swri.org/"><span style="color:blue">http://ros.swri.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://groups.google.com/group/swri-ros-pkg-dev/boxsubscribe"><span style="color:blue">Join the ROS-Industrial Developers List</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Southwest Research Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">210-522-3277<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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