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To better explain my question i will rephrase. In other dynamic simulation tools you can activate/deactivate contact between any two bodies in the world. (e.g I want to a activate contact between sprocket and tracks for tracked vehicle so it is a selective contact within the same model. or to choose some parts of the model to collide with specific other bodies in the environment and invisible in the same time to anything else). does this feature exist in gazebo ? Thank you Nate :)

Hi everyone,

I'm building a robot using a sophisticated imported STL mesh. The multibody model assembly in gazebo might have some interferences. So I would like to deactivate the collision between those body parts while keeping the collision with the environment.

Any suggestion or insight for this problem ???

Thank you scpeters, i'm not familiar with ruby but it seems to be an efficient turnaround solution and merits the effort.

I need to model a vehicle with infinite number of contact points (straight line) on each side of the vehicle. xacro's capability of a single line per wheel is nice but i don't think it will be efficient enough for creating hundreds of wheels.

I need to manage the collision scene as well. have you found a solution for this problem?

I wonder if it is possible to construct a for loop to build N wheels sub-assemblies for a mobile robot in a xacro.urdf file.

I have already created an URDF using Xacro for the mobile robot and the wheel sub-assembly but I need to generate N wheels on each side of the mobile robot.

Any ideas, turnarounds or out-of-the-box solutions?

Thanks,