Using .dae file in gazebo
I am new to gazebo and I am going through the tutorials. I want to model a house in gazebo and spawn TurtleBot in it. I downloaded some furniture models in .obj format from http://www.sweethome3d.com/importModels.jsp. Using "Whoola Collada Converter" I converted .obj files to .dae. Now, How to use these .dae file and spawn the furnitures in gazebo ?
@DimitriProsser: Minutes after posting this question, I myself saw that page. I changed the file name to what I had and ran the urdf file in gazebo and rviz. Gazebo said "Model spawned Succesfully" but nothing actually appeared on the window. It was as empty as before. What could be the problem ?
Did you include both the
<visual>
and<collision>
tags? Are you spawning the model such that it's in collision with the ground or another object? (This could cause it to sink below the ground)