topic Re: How to check whether the conveyor item is moving or stopped? in FlexSim Forum

How to check whether the conveyor item is moving or stopped?

damka — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:23:34 GMT

[ FlexSim 22.2.4 ]

In my model, I have many accumulation conveyors, which move many items at the same time. Some of them are stopped by logic in process flow, others stop, e.g. when the distance between objects has reached the minimum.... Is there any way, using flexscript or process flow, to check whether a given conveyor item is currently in the stopped state or is moving?

Re: How to check whether the conveyor item is moving or stopped?

jason_lightfoot_adsk — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 06:29:25 GMT

You can get some way towards this by checking a simple data type value of the Conveyor.Item (traversal) but it does not detect when the item is moving as part of an accumulation. Here's an example using the cylinder shape's draw code to change the color to green when moving and red otherwise.

The real question is why you would need to do this and whether an alternative method would suffice.

ConveyorItemState.fsm

Re: How to check whether the conveyor item is moving or stopped?

damka — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:49:13 GMT

Thank you very much for your reply!

Yes,

getsdtvalue(stdNode,valName);

is exactly what I was looking for.

I managed to find the the state variable in my model earlier, but I didn't know how to access it.

Thank you again.

Greetings and happy New Year!

Dam.