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[profesorlauraps]

Dear Nikolas,

My name is Laura Pérez, and I am a teacher in Spain. I teach a course focused on industrial mechatronics and robotics, and I recently discovered your Rocksi simulator, which I found extremely impressive and pedagogically valuable.

I would like to kindly ask if it would be possible to obtain a local version of Rocksi to use in my classroom. While the web-based version is excellent, I often face limitations with internet connectivity and would prefer to work offline to ensure a smoother experience for my students.

Additionally, I would appreciate it if you could share the workspace dimensions used in Rocksi. This information would help me prepare and scale the .STL files correctly when designing parts for simulation.

Thank you very much for your time and for developing such a useful tool for robotics education. I look forward to your response and hope to integrate Rocksi into my teaching practice.

Best regards,

[ndahn]

Dear Laura,

Thank you for reaching out, I'm happy to hear that you're finding some use for this! You're free to use Rocksi however you like of course, I set no restrictions here :)

To run it locally you'll have to install npm, then follow the instructions from the readme under "Building". This will start Rocksi on your computer and give you a link that you can open in your browser without internet. I can give you more detailed instructions if needed, but it's been a while since I worked on this.

Regarding workspace dimensions, I'm pretty sure that it's 1m per unit. However, the robots might have a scaling factor applied (10 for the big ones, 20 for the niryo - I guess that's just how they looked right?). I'll have a more in depth look one of these days to confirm.

I hope this helps you for now.

Best regards,
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