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Add polyline conveyors

Add polyline conveyors

Conveyors can be performance inefficient if a model grows too large. Often, conveyor geometry does not match model logic, rendering FlexSim models with an inflated number of unnecessary conveyors. Being able to create polyline conveyors (such as in Anylogic and other simulation software) would reduce the number of conveyor objects, transfers (entry/exit), and unnecessary event listening (conveyor entry/exit). It would also help to produce models faster and less prone to errors due to "conveyor overlap blocking flowitems" caused by conveyor shifts or by the "join conveyors tool".

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parker_standing
Community Manager
Status changed to: Gathering Support

@guiroehe Thanks for submitting this request. What you are proposing would require a significant change to the conveyor system architecture, which we have no plans to do at the moment. I'm also not convinced that reducing the number of conveyors and conveyor transfer would significantly increase the performance when there are so many other variables that could affect it.

The legacy conveyors are poly-sectioned - so only one entry/exit - you could try them to see if they better suit you modelling style, but they have limitations compared to the new conveyor objects.

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