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Let tools/drake_visualizer work outside the sandbox
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Tidy up drake-visualizer launching in READMEs
jwnimmer-tri Jun 12, 2017
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drake/automotive/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ To run `car_sim_lcm`, open a new terminal and execute the following commands:
```
$ cd drake-distro
$ bazel build drake/automotive:demo drake/automotive:car_sim_lcm
$ bazel-bin/external/drake_visualizer/drake-visualizer &
$ bazel-bin/tools/drake_visualizer &
$ bazel-bin/drake/automotive/steering_command_driver &
$ bazel run drake/automotive:car_sim_lcm
```
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion drake/systems/sensors/test/accelerometer_test/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ To run a demo of an accelerometer attached to a pendulum:
# When building Drake using Bazel

cd drake-distro
bazel-bin/external/drake_visualizer/drake-visualizer &
bazel build //tools:drake_visualizer
bazel-bin/tools/drake_visualizer &
bazel run -- //drake/systems/sensors:accelerometer_example --initial_q=1.57 --initial_v=0
14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions tools/drake_visualizer_linux.sh
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#!/bin/bash

set -e

# If we are outside the sandbox, then change to the same relative directory as
# we would be inside the sandbox.
if ! [ -d "external/director" ]; then
guess_runfiles=$(dirname "$0")/drake_visualizer.runfiles/drake
if [ -d "$guess_runfiles/external/director" ]; then
cd "$guess_runfiles"
else
echo "$(basename $0) error: could not find director" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
fi

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="external/director/lib:external/vtk/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
export PYTHONPATH="external/director/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:external/vtk/lib/python2.7/site-packages${PYTHONPATH:+:$PYTHONPATH}"

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