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Check if an object is already connected to a conveyor

guiroehe — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 06:06:00 GMT

Hello,

how one can check if an object is already connected to a conveyor to avoid duplicating port connections between them?

As the conveyor can have multiple entry or exit transfers, and the transfers are separated objects, testing the list of conveyor points exhaustively is very inefficient.

Thank you.

Re: Check if an object is already connected to a conveyor

xavier_low — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:51:56 GMT

You can iterate over the object's outObjects and get the class object:

Object processor = Model.find("Processor1"); int isConnected = 0; for(int i = 1; i <= processor.outObjects.length; i++) { Object obj = processor.outObjects[i]; if (classobject(obj).name == "EntryTransfer") isConnected = 1; } if (!isConnected) // Connect object to conveyor contextdragconnection(processor, Model.find("StraightConveyor1"), "A");

Re: Check if an object is already connected to a conveyor

guiroehe — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:28:02 GMT

Hi, @xavier_low ,

thank you. However this is what I mentioned on my question that is highly inefficient. It works fine for a few conveyors, not for large scale problems.

Thank you anyway.