https://github.com/gavanderhoorn/rfbh

ROS-Fanuc-Blender helper script
https://github.com/gavanderhoorn/rfbh

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ROS-Fanuc-Blender helper script

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gavanderhoorn/rfbh
• Owner: gavanderhoorn
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2015-09-16T18:50:41.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-09-17T16:51:08.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-07-31T14:19:02.124Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 152 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# rfbh

ROS-Fanuc-Blender helper script

## Overview

Simple Blender Python script that imports STL meshes into an empty scene, applies translations and / or rotations, then exports them again to STL, Collada and a Blender file.

This is useful when dealing with robot 3D models that have the origins of all meshes at the 'global origin' of the robot (ie: the `[0, 0, 0]` coordinate).

## Dependencies

 - Blender

 - configparser (should already be included with Blender Python)

## Typical usage

 1. Convert SolidWorks assembly to STLs (eDrawings, single STL *per part*). Filenames may be anything, but already using ROS standard `base_link`, `link_1`, etc would be good. Make note of orientation wrt global coordinate origin

 1. Use robot 'basic specifications' to figure out translations needed

 1. Define 'ops' in `ini` file (see `example.ini`). Be sure to use filenames of STLs when specifying the `chain` and under `ops`

 1. run script:

  ```

  blender -b -P \path\to\mesh_processor.py \path\to\base\dir \path\to\your\file.ini

  ```

If successful, the script should have placed the meshes in the `stl`, `dae` and `blend` subdirs of `\path\to\base\dir`.