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Clear flowitems using code

VikSin — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:30:18 GMT

[ FlexSim 23.2.0 ]

Hello, i have model that consists of different rack objects (Warehouse model) and i am creating user command for deleting all flowitems in the warehouse.
I don't want to use model reset, because on model reset there are some triggers which i don't want to run.

Is there some FlexSim command or way how to achieve it ?

Thank you in advance 🙂

Re: Clear flowitems using code

joerg_vogel_HsH — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:14:07 GMT

treenode.subnodes.clear() - a method to destroy subnodes of a container node. Unfortunately you have to call it on every involved rack object. Perhaps you do it with forobjecttreeunder - a command.

Re: Clear flowitems using code

VikSin — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:40:24 GMT

Thank you Joerg. I was thinking about this solution but also searched for some more universal way. This way I can delete for example all subnodes of the plane object (so all processors, racks etc that are under racks), am I wrong ? (one of the solution would be to put all racks that I want to clear under one group and clear just this group via subnodes.clear()).

However I was thinking if there is some internal command etc ? Because in model reset all flowitems objects are destroyed, so this could be somehow achieved or replicated

Re: Clear flowitems using code

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:52:52 GMT

If you are wanting to reset the model like this, it sounds more like you are running a different scenario. Have you considered running scenarios via the experimenter?

Re: Clear flowitems using code

VikSin — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:17:29 GMT

I am using Flexsim for visualization purpose. On reset model, the data for vizualization are loaded from database. Then I am switching between different views in the model. Each view is made of different flowitems in different slots, so that's why i need to clear warehouse between jumping from one view to another.

Re: Clear flowitems using code

moehlmann_fe — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:24:56 GMT

The code below finds all items that are currently assigned to a slot in a storage object and deletes them.

Array slotItems = Storage.system.queryItems("");
for(int i = 1; i <= slotItems.length; i++)
{
    Object item = slotItems.as(Storage.Slot.Item).item;
    moveobject(item, model());
    item.destroy();
}

Re: Clear flowitems using code

Jeanette_Fullmer — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 01:26:00 GMT

Hi @VikSin, was Joerg Vogel's answer helpful? If so, please click the "Accept" button at the bottom of their answer. Or if you still have questions, add a comment and we'll continue the conversation.

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Re: Clear flowitems using code

VikSin — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:36:49 GMT

That's perfect, thank you :)