File conversion from *.urdf to *.xacro.
How we can convert a hand-written URDF file to a .xacro file (xml macro for generating URDF files) for robot and world models?
GDSP
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How we can convert a hand-written URDF file to a .xacro file (xml macro for generating URDF files) for robot and world models?
GDSP
There is no official or programmatic way of doing this, as the process is strongly dependent on the platform that you are using.
When converting from a URDF to a xacro file, I did the following:
This would be a good starting point for creating a xacro file, in general.
Edit:
See this tutorial for further details and syntax.
Michael's answer covers the strategy well. See this tutorial for further details and syntax.
Asked: 2011-06-13 05:24:54 -0500
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Last updated: Jun 13 '11
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