Advanced Elevator (HC)

[michael_smith4]

[ FlexSim HC 5.0.12 ]

I'm trying to set more advanced properties for Elevators such as capacity/only complete one request at a time.

The pages seem to be missing from the instructions, along with some of the previous advanced features.

Is there a guide available?

[Matthew_Gillespie · Accepted solution]

The HC elevator is a different object than the standard FlexSim one. As far as I know those advanced features you mentioned have never been a part of the HC elevator.

Currently the only guide we have is this example model of how to use the elevator:

elevatorexample.fsm

You might try adding logic through the On Pickup and On Dropoff triggers. It looks like there are a few basic pickoptions there already.

Maybe @cliff.king or @brittany.quinn have more to say about this.

[michael_smith4]

Thanks Matt, I was looking for a way to restrict the content with transported patients and unaccompanied staff in the model. Does the logic examine each person as an individual or when transporting would they be considered a team/single call?

[Matthew_Gillespie]

When a staff escorts a patient, the patient is actually inside the staff member. Thus, I'm pretty sure that when they arrive at the network node and request an elevator only the staff member requests the elevator.

[Matthew_Gillespie]

I looked at some of the elevator code and it looks like it uses the maxcontent variable on the elevator, but it's measured in area. By default the staff and patients are 0.4 m in x and 0.58 m in y and so take up 0.232 m^2 of area. So when I set the max content of the elevator to 0.7 it would only allow 3 people on at a time or when two staff, each escorting one patient, tried to get on it only let one of them on.