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I first tried to use SW to URDF and had many problems with meshes coordinates, and some other problems I don't remember now.
By the time I almost fixed everything I had a good understanding of how URDF was working, and I discovered xacro. Now I am only using xacro to produce my URDF.
Some points against using this SW to URDF :
everytime you update your file on Solidworks you need to export everything again. In my case I am running Ubuntu on my computer, and am not the one doing the mechanical design. It means I had to install SW on my Windows, and everytime I had to change something I had to restart my computer, go to Windows, run the plugin, etc, etc.
The development of the plugin is not supported anymore
With this plugin you can't use xacro, which is a great tool and will save you some time in the future
The SW to URDF plugin has both positive points and negative points. I think it can be very useful in some cases. But personally, from my experience, I would suggest to create a xacro file instead of using the plugin.
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I first tried to use SW to URDF and had many problems with meshes coordinates, and some other problems I don't remember now.
By the time I almost fixed everything I had a good understanding of how URDF was working, and I discovered xacro. Now I am only using xacro to produce my URDF.
Some points against using this SW to URDF :
everytime you update your file on Solidworks you need to export everything again. In my case I am running Ubuntu on my computer, and am not the one doing the mechanical design. It means I had to install SW on my Windows, and everytime I had to change something I had to restart my computer, go to Windows, run the plugin, etc, etc.
The development of the plugin is not supported anymore
One day you will need to debug something in your URDF. It will be harder if you don't know how it's made
With this plugin you can't use xacro, which is a great tool and will save you some time in the future
The SW to URDF plugin has both positive points and negative points. I think it can be very useful in some cases. But personally, from my experience, I would suggest to create a xacro file instead of using the plugin.
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