Issue with URDF tutorial in ROS Groovy

Question

I just started on the tutorial here and ran the code for the example urdf -

roslaunch urdf_tutorial display.launch model:=01-myfirst.urdf

This gives me an error which goes like this -

New config files have an .rviz extension and use YAML formatting. The format changed between Fuerte and Groovy. There is not (yet) an automated conversion program.

What should I do with this error? I didn't find any alternate way yet. Could anyone let me know about this? Thanks.

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Originally posted by nemesis on ROS Answers with karma: 237 on 2013-07-24

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Answer 1

I found this file -

https://github.com/ros/urdf_tutorial/blob/master/urdf_tutorial/urdf.rviz

and copied the file in the urdf_tutorial folder.

I then edited the display.launch file (using gedit) and changed "urdf.vcg" to "urdf.rviz" in that file.

It now works without any issues.

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Originally posted by nemesis with karma: 237 on 2013-07-24

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

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Original comments

Comment by OReilly on 2013-08-22:
Coming to the xacro portion of the tutorial, the same change must be made to the 'xacrodisplay.launch' file (urdf.vcg -- > urdf.rviz).