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If you simply need a way to know where your robot is, and don't really care what it looks like, you can simply add an "Axes" display. Set the reference frame to one of the links of your robot. Something like robot_footprint would work perfectly. If you want it to look less like 3 lines and more like a single "blob", you can set the length to about 0,1 or 0,2.

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