Anybody had any luck with FRCSim?

[DaveFrederick]

I have had good success running FRCSIM on a powerful Dell XPS within VMWare workstation. I looks like there is an error in the installation script with the ownership of the wpilib folder in the users home directory. If you recursively update the ownership from root to the current user (chown -R user:user wpilib) and re-run the script, it might work.

I would like to get additional details on the process of building a simulated robot from scratch. I believe the process is to build the robot body in solidworks, export and add sensors, then import into gazebo.

I will work to learn the process, capture the details and find a mean to perform the same actions without solid works.

Does anyone have information or experience in this area?

Overall goal is to develop a means for the students to run this process on a medium power computer or an Amazon Cloud computer to support the development of code at home.

Dave Frederick
Team 1895 Mentor, Manassas, VA