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(Just adding this here because Google brought me here first)

Maybe your Solidworks version is not compatible. I had the same issue on a 2020 version, solution was to downgrade to 2019 SP3.0 [1] - dont know which other versions work as well.

According to the wiki info for the exporter:

There is a known STL export bug with SolidWorks 2018 that exists up to Service Pack 4 that renders this add-in unusable. If you are using 2018, please update to service pack 5 or use SolidWorks 2019 or later. 2017 and below may also work

[1] https://github.com/ros/solidworks_urdf_exporter/issues/67#issuecomment-664843900

(Just adding this here because Google brought me here first)

Maybe your Solidworks version is not compatible. I had the same issue on a 2020 version, solution was to downgrade to 2019 SP3.0 [1] - dont know which other versions work as well.

According to the wiki info for the exporter:

There is a known STL export bug with SolidWorks 2018 that exists up to Service Pack 4 that renders this add-in unusable. If you are using 2018, please update to service pack 5 or use SolidWorks 2019 or later. 2017 and below may also work

So the steps in case your exporter shows the above errors should be something like

• Check that you downloaded the most recent release of the exporter
• Make sure you install the thing with admin privileges
• Check the logs at <path to="" your="" users="" home="" folder="">/sw2urdf_logs
• Check whether the solidworks version is "supported"

[1] https://github.com/ros/solidworks_urdf_exporter/issues/67#issuecomment-664843900

(Just adding this here because Google brought me here first)

Maybe your Solidworks version is not compatible. I had the same issue on a 2020 version, solution was to downgrade to 2019 SP3.0 [1] - dont know which other versions work as well.

According to the wiki info for the exporter:

There is a known STL export bug with SolidWorks 2018 that exists up to Service Pack 4 that renders this add-in unusable. If you are using 2018, please update to service pack 5 or use SolidWorks 2019 or later. 2017 and below may also work

So the steps in case your exporter shows the above errors should be something like

• Check that you downloaded the most recent release of the exporter
• Make sure you install the thing with admin privileges
• Check the logs at <path to="" your="" users="" home="" folder="">/sw2urdf_logsto your users home folder>/sw2urdf_logs
• Check whether the solidworks version is "supported"

[1] https://github.com/ros/solidworks_urdf_exporter/issues/67#issuecomment-664843900