cpallocate?

[steven_chen1]

[ FlexSim 18.2.2 ]

Hello,

Could you explain what this command does, and when may be used?

[tanner_p]

@steven.chen,

This might help:

[steven_chen1]

Is there a specific purpose to use the command?

Perhaps using the command to pre-allocate control point to occupy path as high priority agv? But I don't know what to do next to make agv travel to the control point.

cpallocate.fsm

[tanner_p]

@steven.chen

I've never personally needed to use this function, but as you probably know, control points can be allocated to AGVs for a number of purposes:

• A point where AGVs pick up and/or drop off flow items.
• A stopping point on the network where AGVs wait to enter an area or section of a path.
• A decision point on the network where the AGV looks for work to do.
• A decision point on the network where an AGV is dispatched to some other point on the network, dependent on network state/availability.

Maybe @jordan.johnson or @phil.bobo would have more to add.

[philboboADSK · Accepted solution]

FlexSim is flexible. The cpalloc() command is available in case someone wanted to use it to develop custom logic for allocating control points instead of using the built-in options and features.

If you don't understand why you would want to dynamically allocate a control point with a command, then you should probably not be using that command.

I would suggest using Control Areas and the AGV Process Flow template instead.

[steven_chen1]

Thanks for your answer.

So in the other hand, can the built-in allocation be disabled and use only cpallocate() by myself?

[philboboADSK]

No.