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This paper presents a new methodology of using tetrahedron configurations to determine the forward kinematics of 6-dof parallel manipulators. The approach is introduced in the form of the Tetrahedron Proposition and Theorem using the special characteristics of tetrahedral geometry which are then applied to obtaining the kinematic solutions of two 6-dof parallel manipulators such as the Hunt-Pri...