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how to make a digital twin of a 6dof robot

so we 3d printed a 6dof robotic pick and place arm using 6 servo motors and a Arduino uno board. we want to make a digital twin of it where the motion of the robot can be presented virtually in real time. so i saw a couple of videos and made a .mdl file ad imported it using MS_Signals block using activate. how do i visually represent the motion of the model?

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RoKet

Hi Bhavani,

Results of co-simulation with MotionSolve (.mdl model) can be visualized only after a simulation run e.g. with Hyperview Player. The results are stored in h3d-file.

And typically a co-simulation is slower than realtime. A faster solution is what I proposed in your first post (How to Simulate Arduino in Activate). If you setup the mechanical model with Modelica multibody library you can use the new animation feature of Activate. And the chance to run it in realtime is high (depending on the model).

Bhavani Kumar

Yea I understand but, my activate software doesn't compile modelica Arduino file for some reason. Can we hope that animation option comes for Motion solve cosimulation too ?

RoKet

Yea I understand but, my activate software doesn't compile modelica Arduino file for some reason. Can we hope that animation option comes for Motion solve cosimulation too ?

For compilation of Modelica components you need to install a visual C++ compiler. The attached document describes how to do that (you can use a newer version, it's not necessary to install an older one).

I heard that the animation of models should be realized in MotionView (like in Inspire Motion). But i don't know if or/and when this feature will be available in Activate for co-simulaton. It would be very nice to have.

ALTAIR_Activate_C_Compiler_Installation.pdf