Robot Development Extensions for URDF

This Visual Studio Code extension helps you buid Universal Robot Description Format (URDF) files for your robot. This extension does not require ROS to be installed in order to edit and visualize URDF files.

NOTE: This extension is rebranded and re-released by Ranch Hand Robotics, owned by the maintainer of the ms-iot VSCode ROS Extension with permission from Microsoft. The source extension was split into 3 parts - ROS 1, ROS 2 and a URDF editor.

Features

Export to Isaac Simulation
3D inline Preview of URDF files
Visualize the robot in 3D
Visualize the robot's joints and links axis and rotation parameters
Visualize the robot's collision and visual geometries
"Explode" the robot's joints to see the robot's internal structure
3D preview
Link Visualization
Joint Visualization
Color Customization
Camera Controls
Gizmos for exploring a URDF
Syntax highlighting
Code completion
Collision Visualization
Schema Validation
AI Assisted Coding prompts fpr Github Copilot
Virtual Reality preview of the model you are editing.

Coming soon

Usage

Open a URDF file
Right click on the file and select "Preview URDF", or press Ctrl+Shift+P and select "Preview URDF"