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If you run rosrun gazebo spawn_model

then you get some description of the parameters

-[urdf|gazebo|trimesh] - specify incoming xml is urdf or gazebo format
-[file|param] [<file_name>|<param_name>] - source of the model xml or the trimesh file
-model <model_name> - name of the model to be spawned.
-z <z in meters> - optional: initial pose, use 0 if left out

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