Default colour palette associated with Type values in FlexSim

[borja_lorenzo]

Hi,

I would like to understand if there is any official mapping between the "Type" value and the colour applied in FlexSim.

Specifically, I am referring to:
- FlowItems in the 3D model when using "Colour by Type"
- Tokens in Process Flow when using Token Colours based on a label such as "Type"

I am attaching a reference model that I modified from the original tutorial:
Use Resources as shared assets in a process flow 
https://www.autodesk.com/learn/ondemand/curated/create-and-work-with-tokens-in-flexsim

In each Process Flow, I slightly adjusted the configuration to try to achieve a visual correspondence between the colour of the 3D objects and the colour of the tokens in Process Flow.

The question came up while working on the "Resource" model (see attached screenshot). I had to manually iterate through different Type values until I found that:
- Type = 1 corresponds to red
- Type = 2 corresponds to green
- Type = 3 corresponds to blue

However, this was done by trial and error.

I would like to know if there is any table, documentation, or internal reference where this mapping between Type values and colours can be checked, instead of determining it manually.

Ideally, I am looking for the default colour palette used by FlexSim when applying "Colour by Type" or token colour mapping in Process Flow.

Thanks in advance!

[joerg_vogel_HsH · Accepted solution]

Currently you get default color pallet by:

item.color = Color.byNumber(current.stats.output.value+1);

in an On Creation Trigger of a source.

This pallet hasn't changed from very early versions of FlexSim.

and Color by Number uses this default setup.

[borja_lorenzo]

Hi Joerg,

Thank you for the clarification and for pointing out the use of Color.byNumber() — that was very helpful.

To better understand and visualise the default palette, I added a small test directly to the Shared Assets tutorial model from Autodesk that I had attached previously. I included a simple piece of code that increments a global variable and assigns the corresponding colour:

item.color = Color.byNumber(ID);

This makes it easy to see which colour corresponds to each number. While values 1–15 are already documented in the section of the manual you pointed out, having a quick visual reference in the model is quite helpful in practice.

It’s a very simple addition, but I’m sharing the updated model in case it might be useful for others.

Thanks again for your help!