Isaacsim 6.0.1 tutorial 7 --- Adding physics fails

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Topic Description

Adding Physics material to robot manipulator finger fails saying " failed to bind to material as they are instance proxies “path to/collisions/mesh_1/box”

Detailed Description

I am trying to replicate tutorial 7 to simulate a pick and place robot manipulator, and while adding physics material to the gripper fingers I get the warning “” failed to bind to material as they are instance proxies “path to/collisions/mesh_1/box” and proceeding to the next step of moving it using the physics inspector the robot arm and gripper is not recognizable and the dialog box says “Re-enable authoring”

I have followed the exact steps of the tutorial series.

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  1. Finish Tutorial 6

  2. Tutorial 7: Adding physics and configuring joint effort limits

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Hi @Asim_eng1, thank you for posting your issue. The problem is that the assets that are put together from Tutorial 6 have the prims as instanceable. In order to modify the prims or sub-prims properties you need to uncheck the instanceable property. Go to the properties panel for the collision prim and uncheck the instanceable checkbox. Then proceed with applying the material.

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We have opened a ticket to improve the tutorial docs to avoid confusion in the future.

internal ticket: 6449903