A problem on rviz

Question

Hi guys, I am using ROS hydro and learning the basis of rviz, following the tutorial in http://wiki.ros.org/rviz/Tutorials/Markers%3A%20Basic%20Shapes. But nothing displays on rviz. In Global Options -> Fixed Frame there is only the default option "map", but no "/my_frame" as shown in the link above. I source the setup.bash and set the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH in every termial. Could you please give me some suggestions? Many thanks.

The cpp file is exactly same as shown in the link. The CMakeList is shown below.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3) project(using_markers)

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS roscpp visualization_msgs )

catkin_package()

include_directories(${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS})

add_executable(basic_shapes src/basic_shapes.cpp)

target_link_libraries(basic_shapes ${catkin_LIBRARIES})

I also add add_dependencies(basic_shapes using_markers_generate_messages_cpp), but no result either.

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Originally posted by pinocchio on ROS Answers with karma: 101 on 2014-04-01

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by sai on 2014-04-01:
i think you have to type the frame name

Comment by ahendrix on 2014-04-01:
Just to confirm, have you run catkin_make, and is the basic_shapes node is running?

Comment by pinocchio on 2014-04-02:
Hi guys, thanks for your help. @Sai I type the"/my_frame", but it does not work either. @ahendrix I run catkin_make, but what is the node of basic_shapes?

Comment by Ken_in_JAPAN on 2014-04-02:
You are trying a command rosrun rviz rviz, aren't you. If you can't look at /my_frame in Fixed Frame in Rviz, /my_frame isn't registered. I think so.

Comment by pinocchio on 2014-04-02:
@ken_in_JAPAN thank you. I think you are right. But could you please tell me how to register the frame? I am nooby to ros. so.. Many thanks.

Comment by Ken_in_JAPAN on 2014-04-02:
At first, you should try a command rosrun tf view_frames. More detail are described on a web site. http://wiki.ros.org/tf. If you look at frames.pdf, you have to decide where you put /my_frame. After that, it is better for you to refer static_transform_publisher on same web. I think so.

Comment by pinocchio on 2014-04-02:
Hi @Ken_in_JAPAN thank you. I am trying to do it!

Comment by dinesh on 2016-07-06:
did someone get exact solution for this, i followed the instruction in the ans below also but didnt worked. what is exact solution?

Comment by ahendrix on 2016-07-06:
This is an exact solution; it lists the exact commands to run, the order to run them in, and shows how to configure rviz. If you're having trouble following these instructions please read how to ask smart questions and then ask a new question.

Comment by dinesh on 2016-07-06:
ok i got the answer, what i was doing wrong was after not seeing the /my_frame title inside the fixed_frame topic, i was not getting the output, i should write the topic /my_frame inside that fixed_frame my self manually, i was confused cas i was not seeing /my_frame in that box when i clicked it di

Answer 1

I could do that!
At first, I typed next command to install basic_shapes on my computer.

$ catkin_make install
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After that, I tried following on terminal.
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$ roscore

On another terminal

$ rosrun using_markers basic_shapes
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On third terminal
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$ rosrun tf static_transform_publisher 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 map my_frame 100 

On last terminal

$ rosrun rviz rviz

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Originally posted by Ken_in_JAPAN with karma: 894 on 2014-04-04

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