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Hi Seth,
DavidG is right.
You can create yourself a 2 linear axis mechanism and move your KMP 1500 using the axis positions.
Have a great day.
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Thanks, DavidG and Jeremy for your response. Yes, I have succeeded to make the 2 linear axis mechanism to the robot and it is working fine. However, I must apologize for being greedy but, is there any way where I can have 1 or 2 linear axis and 1 rotative axis to this robot? I could not figure that out. I tried saving it as a 1 linear axis robot and then add 1 rotative axis(and vice versa) to it using the same method but it did not work.
I would appreciate your suggestions.
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I'm not certain that I completely understand your question.
But I believe you want to be able to move X and Y (2 linear axis like you already did) and to rotate Z.
To do that you just need to stack a rotative axis on top of the linear one. You global mechanism will be composed of two different mechanisms, the linear one and the rotative one.
Hope it helps.
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Hi Seth,
You can stack multiple mechanisms together if you drag & drop them inside the tree. There's no limit regarding the number of axis you can stack together. On the other hand, you'll be able to synchronize up to 2 additional mechanism units and the robot can be attached to one of these 2 (such as an X-Y-Theta mechanism, a 1, 2 or 3 axis linear axis as one mechanism). The other unit can be used as a 1 axis or 2 axis turntable for example.
If you want to model a mobile platform you should not have any issues modelling it as a 2 axis mechanism. If you want the rotation as well (such as a 3-axis X-Y-Theta) you can model and attach an additional 1 rotational axis or we can model the X-Y-Theta for you (a RoboDK Professional license is required).
Another option is to fully implement this behavior using the API.
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It is very helpful. Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.