topic Re: Input Port Group in FlexSim Forum

Input Port Group

kyle_l5 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:13:00 GMT

[ FlexSim 22.2.1 ]

Is there a way to put an entire group as an input port? I see you can click the green plus and click "select by group" but not sure if it's possible and how to use the entire group as the input port of an object...

Re: Input Port Group

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:34:02 GMT

If you click the green plus and then click the group icon at the top it will show the groups. Then click on the group you want and press select. It will add each group member to a new input port:

Re: Input Port Group

kyle_l5 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:55:13 GMT

This is what i'm trying to do but doesn't seem to be working. Even when I click the little plus mark next to the group to expand it, nothing shows

Re: Input Port Group

Jeanette_Fullmer — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:31:40 GMT

Can you double check that you have objects in the Group? You can do this by going to your toolbox and opening the group. Here is a video showing how I did it.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.If you are still having problems, I suggest your update your FlexSim since you are not on the latest bug fix release.

Re: Input Port Group

kyle_l5 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:29:16 GMT

Hi Jeanette

I have all the objects in the group like they should be. I will say though that the objects are flow pipes used with the floworks extension so maybe that's causing some of the issue? I'll also update software per your request and see if that helps

Re: Input Port Group

kyle_l5 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:29:41 GMT

Snip of the group

Re: Input Port Group

Jeanette_Fullmer — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:53:19 GMT

Hello @Harald Emsbroek, I can confirm that with Flowork objects I am not able to add objects as port objects by groups. Could you look into this and see if there is a work around for the Flowork objects. This is also true for the Fluid Object as well.

Re: Input Port Group

Jeanette_Fullmer — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:31:15 GMT

Hello @Kyle L5, I have sent an email to the development team for both FlexSim and Floworks. For now, you can use the group window to select all of the members of a group and then connect one from the group to the desired object and it will connect all of the objects from the group to it.

Re: Input Port Group

patrick_zweekhorst — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:13:20 GMT

Hi @Kyle L5 ,

Our apologies that we missed this question about FloWorks. It should all work like @Jeanette F is showing in the video, but as you already noticed it does not. We will make sure this bug is fixed in the next release for FloWorks. Thank you for finding this problem

Re: Input Port Group

kyle_l5 — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:44:56 GMT

Thank you so much for the help!

Re: Input Port Group

kyle_l5 — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:45:19 GMT

Thank you Patrick!

Re: Input Port Group

patrick_zweekhorst — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:53:07 GMT

Hi @Kyle L5 ,

We were able to put this in the new bug fix release that came out today. So if you are using FlexSim 22.0 or 22.2 you can already download the bug fix to solve this problem

Re: Input Port Group

Matthew_Gillespie — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 21:17:52 GMT

@Kyle L5 @Patrick Zweekhorst This bug has been fixed for Fluid Objects for 22.0.9 and 22.2.3 which will come out next week.