Preventing operators from going into combiner

[syafiq_r]

[ FlexSim 17.0.2 ]

Hi, I have operators that will need to pass flowitems into combiners. However, when the operators do this, he ends up going into the combiner, which looks like the image attached. Anyway of preventing him from going into the combiner. Any help is appreciated.

[sam_stubbsYXX86 · Accepted solution]

You will want to add some kind of navigation system for your operators. Either by creating a path of network nodes, or using A*Star navigation. By default the navigation of Operators is just concerned with going from point A to point B, they don't "recognize" other objects. If you want them to move around other objects and have objects act as barriers, like I said you'll want to create some kind of travel network for the operators.

You can read about these travel networks in the User Manual. For network nodes see User Manual > FlexSim Object Librayr > Travel Networks. Or you can look into A*Star. (User Manual > A*Star) Then you can select the travel network that you think will best suit your model.

[syafiq_r]

Hi Sam!

Thank you for the guidance. I will look into the A*Star in the user manual.

[steven_contreras]

Hi, I founded a solution for your problem.

First Step. You have to go to combiner properties/ general tab / shape factors/edit , and you will edit the location it could be in z, y or x depending on your case, and you will realize inmediatly the operator position until you like it.
As the operator like as the item will get the new location, most probably the item will get out of the combiner location, but you can fix it with a entry trigger on the combiner changing the location the same units you had changed before.

Really I don´t know if this is the ideal solution, but it works.