Draw 3D Arc

[AmeenShabeerJ4UQ4]

[ FlexSim 18.2.2 ]

Hi, How can I draw a 3D Curve/Arc in Model to represent the material flow?

[tanner_p]

@Ameen MS Is the curve/arc the path that you'd like the object to follow? Or is it simply for visual purposes?

[AmeenShabeerJ4UQ4]

Hi, it is only for visual representatione

[karuppasamy_pitchai]

@Ameen MS Create a 3D curve/arc in AutoCAD and import into FlexSim.

[AmeenShabeerJ4UQ4]

Hi, I am looking for a dinamic Object

[SCHamoen]

@Ameen MS

For a simple solution you could draw a cylinder or disk (drawcylinder(),drawdisk()) they both have an inner and outer radius and you could stick halve of it underground.

Other simple solution would be to make a arc in a 3D software like autocad (or AC3D which is cheap but works very well) scale it to 1x1x1 and then make it the size you want. This means that there is still quite some flexibility in making it dynamic

Or look into creating your own mesh (mesh() ) and create your arc with opengl.

[isaac_l1]

You could use Steven's idea and create a circle/ring and then have it constantly be rotating with half of it "underground."

[joshua_s · Accepted solution]

@Ameen MS

Is something like this what you are looking for?

rotating-arrows.fsm

[AmeenShabeerJ4UQ4]

Hi @Joshua S

Thanks For Sharing the model.

I actually looking for an option similar to this. I do not want animation.

Since required 100+ curves like this, I prefer OpenGL/Mesh for dynamic draw

[joshua_s]

Can you explain how you want it dynamic? Do you want it as a trailing effect?

[AmeenShabeerJ4UQ4]

Hi @Joshua S

I don't want any trailing/Animation effect.

need to connect the centre points of the two locations (Queue) with a 3D Arc.

this is to represent the material flow in a pictorial way as a result.

there are 200+ locations in my model, from each location there will be multiple flows.

[joshua_s]

@Ameen MS

Here are 2 example models that demonstrate Steven's suggestions.

drawarc1.fsm

drawarc-3d-shape.fsm

[isaac_l1]

@Ameen MS

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