When designing for the mechanism, I wanted to ensure that I could manipulate the link lengths and positions so that the desired slider motion could be obtained. I used the Planer Mechanism Kinematic Simulator to recreate the 5-bar slotted slider mechanism and adjust adjusted the layout of each pin and link. Figure 1 shows the coordinates of each pin in an X-Y coordinate system.
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Figure 2. Mechanism Animation
A more extensive analysis of each link's motion can be seen in the next section.