Describe sw_urdf_exporter/hints here.

  • Put all parts for each link into one assembly
  • Go through and hide all parts that you don't want to see
    • export as a part
  • Leave only skins and mating surfaces
  • Rearrange the tree according to URDF assembly structure
  • Mates
    • Looking for free degrees of freedom
    • Some degrees of freedom are not supported - e.g. if there are too many joints in between
  • It infers all the inertial properties
    • will account for these even if the corresponding links are hidden
    • color, mass, COM, Moment of Inertia
    • does joint limits as well
  • May have to down-sample the meshes
    • can change individual meshes
    • SolidWorks does not make the meshes coarse enough

    • Need to import the meshes in Blender and downsample

Wiki: sw_urdf_exporter/hints (last edited 2012-08-31 00:03:59 by SachinChitta)