https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/flexsim-forum/how-to-build-model-for-fabric-metal-sheet-rolling-process-line/m-p/13567333#M68570 <P><A rel="user" href="https://answers.flexsim.com/users/16711/vinom.html" nodeid="16711">@vino M</A>, what do you want exactly to know? Is your question related to visual aspect? Or you don’t know, how to divide a coil into small products? You must ask a specific question! </P> Fri, 23 Aug 2019 06:44:40 GMT joerg_vogel_HsH 2019-08-23T06:44:40Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/flexsim-forum/how-to-build-model-for-fabric-metal-sheet-rolling-process-line/m-p/13567332#M68569 <P><I>[ FlexSim 19.1.0 ]</I></P> Fri, 23 Aug 2019 04:52:23 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/flexsim-forum/how-to-build-model-for-fabric-metal-sheet-rolling-process-line/m-p/13567332#M68569 vino_m 2019-08-23T04:52:23Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/flexsim-forum/how-to-build-model-for-fabric-metal-sheet-rolling-process-line/m-p/13567333#M68570 <P><A rel="user" href="https://answers.flexsim.com/users/16711/vinom.html" nodeid="16711">@vino M</A>, what do you want exactly to know? Is your question related to visual aspect? Or you don’t know, how to divide a coil into small products? You must ask a specific question! </P> Fri, 23 Aug 2019 06:44:40 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/flexsim-forum/how-to-build-model-for-fabric-metal-sheet-rolling-process-line/m-p/13567333#M68570 joerg_vogel_HsH 2019-08-23T06:44:40Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/flexsim-forum/how-to-build-model-for-fabric-metal-sheet-rolling-process-line/m-p/13567334#M68571 <P>Fabric and sheet metal processes seems to look like a continuous flow. In fact the products are very long in relation to their width or thickness. You can think of them as a stream of boxes, where on each box some changes happens:</P><UL><LI>A box becomes thinner.</LI><LI>A box get coated.</LI><LI>A box is inspected.</LI><LI>The stream is split between boxes.</LI><LI>A defect box is cut from the stream.</LI></UL><DIV style="orphans: 3;">You won’t get a physical realistic visual realization of the process. You can get approximately a visual look when you let flow boxes on conveyors. For sheet metal processes you can activate bidirectional options.</DIV> <DIV style="orphans: 3;">For sheet metal processes where the thickness changes the box is set to the result thickness before it enters the process section. A draw surrogate object will enhance the thickness to the pre-processed height. </DIV> <DIV style="orphans: 3;">For sheet metal processes that transform the shape you pretend the transformation by an animation without a visible box. The box is set invisible in this section on entry, the process is an animation, on exit the box is set visible again with a changed 3D shape.</DIV> <DIV style="orphans: 3;">You will compute the amount of boxes into length dimensions for the statistic.</DIV> <DIV style="orphans: 3;">A remark: Please don’t set the box length to short. It will only increase the amount of boxes in the model, which has got a direct effect on the performance. </DIV> <DIV style="orphans: 3;">You are building a model that works similar to the flow object library. The continuous flow is cut in ticks of discrete changes.</DIV> Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:13:08 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/flexsim-forum/how-to-build-model-for-fabric-metal-sheet-rolling-process-line/m-p/13567334#M68571 joerg_vogel_HsH 2019-08-24T11:13:08Z