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Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

javier_lg — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:41:43 GMT

[ FlexSim 22.2.2 ]

Hello everybody,

I have a problem with the conveyor belt that is blocked when I want to limit its use to 25 tokens and especially when I leave it in non accumulate mode.

I would like to create a conveyor belt that can transport vrac but that can enter the 25 entities in a uniform way and not in an accumulated way since in the model it sends them all at once and not partially...

I would like to see the 25 entities along way to the conveyor.. any suggest to resolve that?

Thanks in advance,

Javier

Problem with non-accumulating.fsm

Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:18:44 GMT

It looks like you should specify the spacing that gives you the desired visual effect with virtual length, or remove the virtual length and have the spacing be the size of the object.

Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

javier_lg — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 20:07:39 GMT

Hi Jason,

Thanks you for your advice, it's work perfectly if I use the entry space to put the numbers of entities into the conveyor.

Anyways, do you have any idea to resolve the same problem with a virtual lengh ? because I will work with quite long conveyors and will be difficult for the visual

Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:03:28 GMT

I think in that case you need to make the gaps larger to maintain the same visuals. Or you could keep the same length and slow the conveyor to represent the extra distance travelled.

Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

javier_lg — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:39:45 GMT

How I can make those gaps to maintenain the same visual?

Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:45:39 GMT

Alter the conveyor stopping, entry and moving space.

Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

andrew_o2 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:18:38 GMT

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Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

javier_lg — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:54:06 GMT

Hi @Andrew O

I'm sorry but I can't find the solution with a strap with virtual capacity that doesn't accumulate entities and that have a standard distance between them.

If you can provide me with a simple model that does this I would appreciate it.

Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:08:47 GMT

Just use the distance as I suggested:

Re: Problems with conveyors to put entities in non-accumulating and uniformed

javier_lg — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:59:17 GMT

Good !! Perfect thanks a lot Jason for your support !!