topic Re: Visual problem with flow items in FlexSim Forum

Visual problem with flow items

robert_f2 — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:04:36 GMT

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I have a simple problem that I need help with. In my simulation model, the flow items in queue 3 and queue 4 appear to be floating, and they also overlap each other. The flow items carried by transporter one also appear to be floating. Thanks for any tips.

Re: Visual problem with flow items

emily_hardySTLSK — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 22:21:29 GMT

This has to do with the rotation of the flowitem. Despite their Y rotation being set to 90, they are stacking and being treated like they are vertical. If you change the flowitems rotation back to 0, then they stack normally.

If it's important to you that the items are rotated in the other direction, I can come up with a better solution, but this will fix the stacking issue.

Re: Visual problem with flow items

Jacob_Gillespie — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 22:28:16 GMT

@Robert F2 If you want them to be rotated as you had them then you have to rotate the 3d object before bringing it into FlexSim.

Or you can put the object into a drawsurrogate node like I did in the attached model.

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Re: Visual problem with flow items

robert_f2 — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:28:09 GMT

@Emily Hardy

This worked for me, Thank you for your help.