We're evaluating various depth cameras to use in our robot. We're starting off by experimenting with them in Isaac Sim.
It turns out that the Zed extension is not installed by default in Isaac Sim 5.1, so I followed the instructions here to get it. We added the path in the Settings as described.
Unfortunately... it didn't work. The plugin was still not found. 😒
I went to the git repo, and noticed that we need to build the extension (which wasn't mentioned in the documentation).
Not sure why the extension isn't simply provided in binary form for the supported platforms, but no problem. I cloned the repo and ran build.bat.
Unfortunately...., it didn't work. 😒
I got the following error:
:\Users\broeh\Desktop\Mirsee_Isaac_Sim\zed-isaac-sim>build
Downloading dependencies version 4.1.0...
Downloading sl_zed library...
Invoke-WebRequest : Could not find a part of the path
'C:\Users\broeh\Desktop\Mirsee_Isaac_Sim\zed-isaac-sim\exts\sl.sensor.camera.bridge\bin\sl_zed64_windows_x86_64_4.1.0.tar.gz'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://stereolabs.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspace ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Invoke-WebRequest], DirectoryNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand
Failed to download sl_zed library from https://stereolabs.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/utils/zed_isaac_sim/4.1.0/sl_zed64_windows_x86_64_4.1.0.tar.gz
No problem. I looked over the batch file, and carried out the first few steps manually -- retrieved the .tgz file from the specified URL, untarred it and made sure the .dll file was in the right place. Then I ran repo.bat.
Unfortunately... it didn't work. 😒
I tried re-running the build.bat script, and apparently my manual steps must've helped because it got a little further. Now I get an exception and a stack trace.
The message does say to install Visual Studio. The thing is... I already have Visual Studio installed. It mentions 2019... does the build not work with new versions? I went to install 2019 from the Microsoft site, but it's no longer there.
Before I keep digging into all this... are these known problems? Am I looking at an out-of-date repo? Is there a binary build of the Zed extension for Isaac Sim that I can simply install?
We're evaluating various depth cameras to use in our robot. We're starting off by experimenting with them in Isaac Sim.
It turns out that the Zed extension is not installed by default in Isaac Sim 5.1, so I followed the instructions here to get it. We added the path in the Settings as described.
Unfortunately... it didn't work. The plugin was still not found. 😒
I went to the git repo, and noticed that we need to build the extension (which wasn't mentioned in the documentation).
Not sure why the extension isn't simply provided in binary form for the supported platforms, but no problem. I cloned the repo and ran build.bat.
Unfortunately...., it didn't work. 😒
I got the following error:
No problem. I looked over the batch file, and carried out the first few steps manually -- retrieved the .tgz file from the specified URL, untarred it and made sure the .dll file was in the right place. Then I ran repo.bat.
Unfortunately... it didn't work. 😒
I tried re-running the build.bat script, and apparently my manual steps must've helped because it got a little further. Now I get an exception and a stack trace.
The message does say to install Visual Studio. The thing is... I already have Visual Studio installed. It mentions 2019... does the build not work with new versions? I went to install 2019 from the Microsoft site, but it's no longer there.
Before I keep digging into all this... are these known problems? Am I looking at an out-of-date repo? Is there a binary build of the Zed extension for Isaac Sim that I can simply install?