How to address an item inside container?

[edwin_purwanto]

Hello,

So, I wish to by percentage delete the item inside container (say 30% will be lost, but container will remain).

How do we address the item inside container? "item" only address the container.

Best regards,

Edwin

[chanykE2WUT · Accepted solution]

@Edwin Purwanto

You can use rank(obj, rank_number) to point at any item inside the obj (e.g.item) at the rank.

David

[edwin_purwanto]

Hi David, thanks for your help. Furthermore, is there any command to selectively delete flowitem?

[jing_chen]

Use rank() to find out the object you want to delete and use destroyobject() or moveobject()(to a sink) to delete it.

[sachin_tandulkar]

@david.chan

I am trying to access the part inside the container as the cycletime for the machine is based on the part inside the container.

So i used this as per the suggestion you made.

treenode Part=rank(item,1);

This is returning "NULL" value. Is there any other way to do it, or I did something wrong.

[chanykE2WUT]

@sachin tandulkar

I am not sure when went wrong, unless you can attached a small model to illustrate it.

David

[chanykE2WUT]

@sachin tandulkar

I have added an example here. One just using 3D and another with PF.

David

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