urdf tutorial in groovy

Question

When trying to visualize the simplest model in the urdf tutorial "Building a Visual Robot Model with URDF from Scratch" using the following command in Groovy:

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

I get a blank(dark grey) display window named "urdf.vcg" instead of the usual Rviz window. However, running

rosrun rviz rviz

Works as expected. Is it a problem with my installation or does the tutorial need to be updated?

JML

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Originally posted by JML on ROS Answers with karma: 26 on 2013-05-22

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Answer 1

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A recent patch by Shaun Edwards adds a Groovy compatible config file.

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Originally posted by David Lu with karma: 10932 on 2013-05-22

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Answer 2

Works, thanks (and thanks Shaun)!

JML

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Originally posted by JML with karma: 26 on 2013-05-22

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Answer 3

I just removed the line "" from the display.launch file and manually added RobotModel to rviz. Everytime I reload the display.launch file, I just uncheck and check the box to the right of RobotModel on rviz to reload the updated urdf model.

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Originally posted by sobotacm with karma: 36 on 2013-05-22

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