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The location information of object in differnt plane.

s1125413 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:46:31 GMT

Hello FlexSim community and @FelixMoehlmann ,

The object’s coordinates are not recorded using the same standard when it is placed on different planes.

Is there any method to make the object’s coordinates on Plane 1/Plane1 consistent with those on Plane1?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Re: The location information of object in differnt plane.

FelixMoehlmann — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:05:57 GMT

Use getLocation() to get the location as a Vec3 variable. (I would always prefer this over using the location property because it allows you to find the coordinates of a specific point of the object, most often the center.) Then use project() to convert the coordinates. Either into the coordinate system of the other queue's parent object or convert both to a shared system, like the model itself.

Re: The location information of object in differnt plane.

s1125413 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:26:06 GMT

Thank you so much, it working!!

Re: The location information of object in differnt plane.

s1125413 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:57:36 GMT

Hello @FelixMoehlmann ,Sorry to bother you on an old post.

I followed your advice to use getlocation() to keep the object within the model() coordinate system across different planes.

However, as shown in the picture, the two objects in the plane still do not match the coordinates of /Queue1. Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

Re: The location information of object in differnt plane.

FelixMoehlmann — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:25:45 GMT

"getLocation()" by itself just gets the coordinates within the parent object. You then also need to project the coordinates.

回复： The location information of object in differnt plane.

s1125413 — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:14:39 GMT

@FelixMoehlmann it read the coordinate that what I need!! But I want to set location to update the Object's coordinate based the Table, is there any method instead to the location.x an y?

回复： The location information of object in differnt plane.

FelixMoehlmann — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:53:55 GMT

Write the coordiantes to a Vec3 variable. Project that to the correct coordinate space. Then set the location.

Vec3 loc = Vec3(Table(...)[row][col], Table(...)[row][col], 0); a.setLocation(loc, Vec3(0.5, 0.5, 0));

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/26.0/Reference/CodingInFlexSim/FlexScriptAPIReference/Data/Vec3.html