Solidworks Motion

[Michael Hill]

From what I remember, it did use Gazebo, but it could only be simulated in Linux. It seemed to be more of a gimmicky time-waster than useful to be honest.

[ASD20]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

From what I remember, it did use Gazebo, but it could only be simulated in Linux. It seemed to be more of a gimmicky time-waster than useful to be honest.

At this stage, everything is. I think we are at least a decade away from having a useful, mainstream FRC simulator.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

From what I remember, it did use Gazebo, but it could only be simulated in Linux. It seemed to be more of a gimmicky time-waster than useful to be honest.

To be fair, Gazebo has always been a real pain. In my mobile robotics class one of the groups decided to get it running as their final project. Their final presentation was essentially: "yeah uh, this is a finicky piece of crap, we spent 4 weeks trying to get it running according to it's instructions and it sorta almost works."

[OccamzRazor]

Someone I spoke to the other day in VA said he had started to develop a simulator for SOLIDWORKS and asked if I had used it or had looked at it yet. He was a mentor from team 190 and he had a presentation for this at Championships this year. Contact team 190 for information because I believe it has been posted before. I cannot find it in my searches.

http://users.wpi.edu/~first/2012/index.html