How to animate my own elevator with BasicTe

[Stefan13]

[ FlexSim 24.2.0 ]

I have my own elevator and I want to use BasicTe c to make it work similar to an ASRS but it doesn't work, first I went into animation and created the components .

then I created the kinematics for the movements here

and I tend to think that the problem is in the motion creation code, which looks like this

I would really appreciate it if you could help me to make it work, I'll leave the model attached for you to look over.Model_elevator.fsm

[moehlmann_fe · Accepted solution]

The nodes you are initializing the kinematics in do not exist. You can use "assert" to make that they do (they will get created if they don't).

treenode axaKin = axa.attrs.assert("kinematic");
treenode platanKin = platan.attrs.assert("kinematic");

In the On Draw you are going down one layer too far and refer to the "MySurrogate" object instead of "platan".

And the offset you are given in the On Begin Offset trigger is relative to the location of the BasicTE. The coordinates of the surrogates you read in the code are relative to their parent object. You need apply a further offset to them.

[Stefan13]

I only managed that reference "the turntable is not ok, it's coming out of the elevator, how can I do that?

and the box is not placed on the "platan"

[moehlmann_fe]

Did you fix the On Draw trigger? It should only be a single "first" in line 7.

model-elevator_1.fsm

[Stefan13]

Thank you very much, it works exactly as I want, it just doesn't put the box on the turntable, how can I do this?

[moehlmann_fe]

You have two options.

1) Add an On Entry trigger and make place the item onto the "platan" object. But since the item is not a direct subnode of the BasicTE anymore it will not be counted as content and the TE's state will be "travel empty".

2) Do what the default ASRS does. In the On Draw trigger continually adjust the location of the item to stay in the center of the "platan" object.

if(current.subnodes.length > 0)
{
    Object item = current.first;
    item.setLocation(platan.getLocation(0.5, 0.5, 1).project(axa, current), Vec3(0.5, 0.5, 0));
}

[Stefan13]

Thank you very much