Moving a depth camera model in the world without a robot body

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@chapulina, Thank you for your response, it helped. Now the camera stays in the position and doesn't just fly off but it is not moving either. I try to change the pose of the model on the UI but it doesn't change from the spawned initial position in the .world file. Strange thing is that when I spawn a camera model through UI (Insert tab) and then go to model editor and change the 'Static' to true, then I can move the model to any random pose. It modes around then. Any Idea why ?

Hmm, I am able to move any static models in my world using the UI no problem. The model also doesn't fall down when I increase it's coordinate on the z-axis. What Gazebo version are you using?

@Raskkii I am using 7.0

Is your model nested inside another one or attached with a joint? You're using URDF, right? After the world is loaded, while you can't move it, could you save the world and then check the resulting SDF to see if the static flag is correctly set?

@chapulina, The model is independent with a structure like this '<model> <link> <sensor><camera>....</camera><sensor><link></model>'. This model is inside <world></world>. I did exactly what you said, launch a model with guil, save the model to file and examine it, static is set to '1'. In fact, I copied the contents between <model></model> and replaced it. I am still facing the same issues. I can move a model spawned from the gui using gui but not the model spawn through world file.

Could you tell me how to spawn an model in SDF, URDF file after starting a gazebo instance with a default world. I am am new to this and I don't want to use ROS. I couldn't find any tutorials to spawn a model from file without ROS.

Try `gz model --spawn-file=model_file.sdf --model-name=model_name`. Could you add a link to your model to the question? Also, what Gazebo version are you using?

(links in comment below) Okay, I figured it out. It's a glitch with the UI. I launched the world without camera and spawned the camera model with the sdf below. In this screenshot_1, the camera is spawned at <0,0,0,0,0,0> and it visualizes the scene. The topic visualization of the camera data also sees the same, But however, when I move it around in the GUI, in this screenshot_2, the camera visual doesn't change but the topic visualization shows image corresponding to <3,1,2,0,.2,0>.

I am using Gazebo 7.0.1 sdf: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PPV89J6RA4s6YOSF_5l0rRqIzEOEfDVl Screenshot_1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12eB3ESDJ_axueg1eBZiM_Og7vBlHvxZg Screenshot_2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p4N2NvzK9c1ozbtPuJU-MeUgsMitb9_D

Glad you figured it out. That sounds like a bug, feel free to ticket it here: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo/issues