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how to define rack as a flow item and bring rack with agv and put box?

M10811061 — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:14:28 GMT

[ FlexSim 19.0.0 ]

Please help me
i am newbie

1. I want to use rack as a flow item executer .
2. Rack will Bring with agv to take the box with robot.

3. and 3 box in the rack will put in the output queue

do i need to make flow item ?
Can someone help me, please

2.fsm

Re: how to define rack as a flow item and bring rack with agv and put box?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:28:06 GMT

Why would you do this? It is possible to move an object into a flow item. But as long as you don’t need the statistical output or the functionality to call taskexecuters for transport, you can do simply a storage operation in a container flow item like a pallet or tote.

If you need a dynamic rack system to spare aisle space, you can put a rack into a taskexecuter. Or you need a robot to move on a railway, then you combine objects. But to put a box into a rack and move the rack as a flow item, I don’t see the need from your description. Here you find an animated gif which uses pallet flow items just with a shape looking like a rack.

Re: how to define rack as a flow item and bring rack with agv and put box?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:53:39 GMT

Ok,the needed steps are>

open flow item bin.
make a copy of a flow item.
highlight the flow item in window. It is yellow framed.
make this object to an selected object from the right mouse button menu. Then you have a functional reference to this flow item by so()
you drag a rack into your model. It has got the reference Model.find(“Rack1”)
you need to execute a command to move the rack into the flow item. In licensed version you use the script console window. In an express license you put the code into a reset trigger.
```
moveobject(Model.find(“Rack1”),so());
```
run the script window or press reset to execute the reset source code.
once the code is executed, please remove it from the reset trigger.

then the object rack is inside of the flow item.

Re: how to define rack as a flow item and bring rack with agv and put box?

M10811061 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 08:15:39 GMT

make this object to an selected object from the right mouse button menu. Then you have a functional reference to this flow item by so()

i don't understand this step.
may you help me ?

Re: how to define rack as a flow item and bring rack with agv and put box?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:02:42 GMT

you press and hold the right mouse button then a menu pops up (Context menu). There you choose set as selected object. Otherwise you have to set a string path to the flow item in the bin. This path is much longer than simply the name in the model. You need access to the tree feature. It is only available in licensed version or you copy the path from the context menu and edit the string that it fits to the container node “Model” for the method find.

Re: how to define rack as a flow item and bring rack with agv and put box?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:31:49 GMT

If you own a licensed version you can forget all coding and use a tool instead. The tool is found in Edit in Main Menu. The tool is called Edit Selected Objects. You find it in the right pane. The function is called “Move into Highlighted”. You select the rack by hold CTRL-key or SHIFT-key in the 3D view window. The object is surrounded by a read wireframe. You highlight the flow item in flow item bin 3D view window that it gets a surrounding yellow wireframe and you press the field “Highligthed” in the tool Edit Selected Object. Then the Rack is moved into the treenode of the Flow item in the flow item bin.

Re: how to define rack as a flow item and bring rack with agv and put box?

Ben_WilsonADSK — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:04:04 GMT

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