Modeling and simulation are important and essential stages in the engineering design and problem solving process because it allows to prevent the risks and to lower the costs that appear with the design, construction and testing stage of a new robot. In the design process of parallel robots different tools can be used to model and simulate a robot. There are however different modeling and simulation tools which can be used together with one another to help into the development of a model. These different tools can vary according to its functionality and according to its best use for Modeling. For example some tools are best suitable for first functionality model such as CAD software (SolidWorks). SolidWorks is mainly a CAD tool although one can also do some simulation in SolidWorks, it is not the best tool used for simulation. For that reason other simulation tools such as ADAMS can be used instead to perform the dynamical simulation of the robot. The same thing, ADAMS is again not the proper CAD tool so one can not get detailed geometrical information about the parts and elements of the parallel Robots. ADAMS does not also perform the simulation of the functionality of the Robot, so it only shows how a robot would move in reality and one can get real physical information about the Robot and how it would perform dynamically in reality. For simulation and control of a parallel robot other software tool such as MATLAB can be used to simulate the parallel robot.

With the help of SolidWorks software we can make: 1) the CAD model of the parallel robot, 2) detailed modeling of the parallel robot components, 3) choose appropriate material for parts from the material library, 4) assembling parts and components, 5) get geometrical and physical information about the parts.

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