FlexSim 2025 Update 1 Beta is now available. FlexSim 25.1.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. The beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please create a new post in the Bug Report space or Development space.

FlexSim 2025 Beta is now available. FlexSim 25.0.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. The beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please create a new post in the Bug Report space or Development space.

FlexSim 2024 Update 2 Beta is now available. FlexSim 24.2.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. The beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please create a new post in the Bug Report space or Development space.

FlexSim 2024 Update 1 Beta is now available. FlexSim 24.1.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. The beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Bug Report space or Development space.

FlexSim 2024 Beta is now available. (Updated November 20) FlexSim 24.0.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. The beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Bug Report space or Development space.

FlexSim 2023 Update 2 Beta is now available. (Updated July 21) FlexSim 23.2.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. The beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Bug Report space or Development space.

FlexSim 2023 Update 1 Beta is now available. (Updated March 14) FlexSim 23.1.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. The beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Bug Report space or Development space.

FlexSim 2023 Beta is now available. FlexSim 23.0.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. The beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space.

FlexSim 2022 Update 2 Beta is now available. (Updated July 18) FlexSim 22.2.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. Subsequently the beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space.

FlexSim 2022 Update 1 Beta is now available. (Updated March 28) FlexSim 22.1.0 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. Subsequently the beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space.

FlexSim 2022 Beta is now available. (Updated November 23) To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. Subsequently the beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. FlexSim 22.0.0 Release Notes Added several new features to the Experimenter including: Experimenter can define and run multiple different jobs. Experimenter results are stored in a database file. Additional replications of a scenario can be run without needing to rerun previous replications. Improved visuals for status of replications. Added a Reinforcement Learning tool. Added Label charts. Added Tracked Variable charts. Standardized charts created by Pin buttons. Added sort options to table views. Updated MTBF/MTTR time fields to show unit conversion options. Added InObjectsInternal and OutObjectsInternal properties to the Visual Tool class. Backwards Compatibility Note: The following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Deprecated the optquest() command. It no longer executes any logic when called. The associated OPT_* macros have been removed. FlexSim now interacts with OptQuest through the Optimization Job object. Changed the default query handlers that deal with the Experimenter in MAIN:/project/exec/globals/serverinterface/queryhandlers. Custom applications that create web queries may need to be updated. Process Flow Added Process Flow Activity Statistics charts.

FlexSim 2021 Update 2 Beta is now available (Updated 26 July 2021) To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. Subsequently the beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. FlexSim 21.2.0 Release Notes Added a Template system for inheriting properties from other objects. Added new manipulation handles for moving, rotating, scaling, and connecting objects in the 3D view. Added ability to delete connector lines. Added a StateTable object. Added a getstatetableutilization() command. Added a Pass-through parameter type. Added a checkbox so transporters can move their forks separate from traveling. Added more Task Executer shapes. Improved treenode.getPath() to return a relative path to nodes that aren't a direct ancestor. Added a Frustrum Culling checkbox in Visuals. Agent Added an AgentSystems property. AGV Allowed the user to define some basic routing cost multipliers, including: An option to divide by speed, allowing for fastest path routing (instead of shortest path) An option to define a custom path-based multiplier to the cost Added Path Conditions, which allow you to "close" certain paths, based on either model state or agv state, etc. Added a Prioritize Control Point Lookahead option. A* Added the capability to have oblong grid node sizes. Allowed barriers to be inside visual tools. Added the ability to add dynamic barriers to the A* system. This is done by calling AStar.navigator.addDynamicBarrier(), then AStar.navigator.removeDynamicBarrier() to remove those barriers. Added several triggers to A* objects: AStar.Navigator: OnGridChange: called when dynamic barriers are added or removed AStar.Traveler: OnCalculatePath: called just before a traveler's path is being calculated AStar.Traveler: OnNavigatePath: Called just before a traveler runs the algorithm to define kinematics and cell allocations for traveling its path. Also allows the ability to override the default behavior and define your own. Made several additions to AStar.Traveler API, AStar.Navigator API, etc. Added a TravelPatterns property. Backwards Compatibility Note: The following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Improved the deadlock recovery algorithm. Now it will add each traveler in the deadlock, as well as any travelers that are waiting on those travelers, as dynamic barriers. Then it will go through each traveler in the deadlock, remove it from the dynamic barriers, add any additional travelers that are adjacent to that traveler as barriers, then try to recalculate the path to the traveler's destination. If it finds a traveler that can still travel all the way to its destination, that traveler will be rerouted. Otherwise, if it finds a traveler that can travel at least on grid square, it will reroute that traveler. Otherwise, it will give a notification of unrecoverable deadlock. GIS Added the GIS module to the Flexsim Installer. Process Flow Added a ProcessFlows property. Added a ProcessFlowVariables property. Backwards Compatibility Note: The following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Removed instance object editing from Object Process Flows.

FlexSim 2021 Update 1 Beta is now available. 21.1 Release Notes To get the beta, log in to your account at https://account.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. The More Versions button does not appear when logged in as a guest account. Subsequently the beta is available only to licensed accounts and accounts that have a license shared with them. Learn more about downloading the best version of FlexSim for your license here. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space.

FlexSim 2021 Beta is available. (Updated 19 November 2020) To get the beta, log in to your account at www.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. Release Notes Added a Model Parameter Table tool. Added a Performance Measure Table tool. Added an Empirical Distribution tool. Added a Web Page tool. Upgraded html views from WebKit to Chromium Embedded Framework. Added a Map FlexScript API. Added a JSON FlexScript API. Added Object.getProperty() and Object.setProperty() methods to the Object FlexScript API. Moved dashboard properties windows into the context sensitive Properties window. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. The Experimenter and Optimizer now use Model Parameter and Performance Measure Tables. Existing experiments and optimizations are no longer compatible and are discarded by the model upgrade process. Fixed the PowerPoint.Presentation.create() and PowerPoint.Presentation.open() method syntax. Due to Chromium's multi-process architecture, the FlexScript command callwebscriptmethod() and JavaScript function fireFlexsimEvent() are now asynchronous and do not return values directly. To get the return value of fireFlexsimEvent(), you can now pass a callback function as the last parameter: fireFlexsimEvent("myEvent", param1, param2, function(result) { alert("result: " + result); }); AStar Added a Strict Diagonals setting to make travelers travel better around corners. Conveyor Added a Mass Flow Conveyor. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Removed Conveyor Types. People Added a Remove Statistically Only checkbox to the Remove Person activity. Updated the Statistics Properties panel to display HC states.

FlexSim 2020 Update 2 Beta is available. (Updated 22 July 2020) To get the beta, log in to your account at www.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. Release Notes Updated the run speed slider so you can customize the ratio of display units to real seconds. Moved object properties windows into the context sensitive Properties window (formerly known as Quick Properties). Added a new Quick Properties window that appears next to your cursor when double clicking on an object. Added a pop-out button to the Labels panel of the Properties window. Added a Dark theme for FlexSim's UI. Added Unit edit buttons to more edit fields. Updated the Quick Library to match the current state of collapsed and expanded panels in the main library. Removed the View Settings window and moved all its options into the Properties window. Improved performance of Properties window and various other UIs. Added Object Property tables. Added Object class properties and methods to the Variant class in FlexScript. This removes the need to use .as(Object) if you know the treenode pointed at by a Variant is an Object. Added Object.resetPosition property. Added capture groups to the string.replace() method. Enabled several SQL clauses - NOT, NOT IN, DELETE FROM, INSERT INTO, and LEFT JOIN/LEFT OUTER JOIN. Added ARRAY_VAL() sql function for accessing a value in an array. Added unit conversions to the convert() command - convert(4.5, "ft/min", MODEL_UNITS). Improved performance of loading media by making it multi-threaded. Added Color.fromPalette options to several Set Color popups. Added a pickoption for the Source's On Creation trigger for attaching items to an Object process flow. Disabled the beeping noise when pressing Enter in edit fields. Fixed the Create Object edit mode sometimes not creating objects and just exiting (like when clicking on the library when the User Manual was active). Fixed a draw issue with tables drawing bold text sometimes. Fixed a bug with window docking. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Changed updatehotlinks() to only repaint the view if it applies a node with a viewsyncupdate attribute of 1. The keywords VALUES an DELETE were added to the sql parser. This means that previous models that use the term VALUES, Values, values, DELETE, etc. will get an error because sql now sees it as a special keyword. If you get this error, just wrap your term with square brackets: [Values] to tell the parser to not interpret it as a sql keyword. Agent Added the Agent module to the Flexsim Installer. Enabled A* walls as static agents. Added a neighbors() function to the Agent API. Fixed social forces for agents not in model space. Fixed bugs with using A* bridges. AGV The join tool now joins in all cases, defaulting to a straight path if it can't solve for a curved path. Conveyor The join tool now joins in all cases, defaulting to a straight conveyor if it can't solve for a curved conveyor. Emulation Added Allen-Bradley connections. People Improved performance of state history tables. Fixed listening to travel events on a person created with the Create Person activity. Process Flow Added new Kinematics activities. Added new Warehousing activities. Added an Enabled checkbox to the Source activities so that you can turn them off. Consolidated Fixed Resource and Task Executer process flow types into a single "Object" type. Added a right-click menu option to the 3D view so a user can right-click on an object and add an Object process flow directly. Added an Object Flow field to the Create Object activity and added a pickoption for attaching items to an instanced flow. Changed double clicking on an activity to be more consistent with the 3D view and now opens the activity's properties window. This window now has a name edit field so you can still easily rename the activity. You can also slow double click to only open the old name edit field. Improved performance of activity properties windows.

FlexSim 2020 Update 1 Beta is available. (Updated 24 March 2020) To get the beta, log in to your account at www.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. Release Notes Updated the Statistics Collector to be simpler and more user friendly. Added a PowerPoint FlexScript API. Added an HTTP FlexScript API. Added a sorting tab to various charts. Improved performance of chart templates. Replaced the code profiler with a new Performance Profiler. Added a Memory Profiler. Added OnEntry and OnExit events to TaskExecuter objects. Added an icon to library items that launch a pop-out library of choices. Reorganized the dashboard library using the pop-out library to consolidate charts with multiple visualizations. Updated the WebServer to use the Version Selector. Added a Find/Replace UI for global tables. Added support for Ctrl-F and Ctrl-H keyboard shortcuts for various windows. Added support for renaming objects using the F2 keyboard shortcut. Added a Vec3 overload to the Object.setRotation() method. Added a stop parameter to the userinput() command which will stop code execution until a value is entered. Added a default parameter to the realtime() command that returns realtime(1)+0.001*realtime(2). Updated various pickoptions to use the TaskSequence and TaskExecuter APIs. Added tutorials for the Statistics Collector. Fixed some issues with the importtable() command. AGV Added new Train functionality. Added offset travel functionality to the AGV network. Added a time-based trailing option. Added the routing drawing feature to a right click option. Updated Quick Properties' apply to all selected objects functionality to work with AGV objects. Made arrows bigger. Fixed several spinners in Quick Properties not applying immediately. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Changed behavior for when a TaskExecuter is connected to an AGV network, and is set to use the navigator for its offset travel. Previously, the navigator was hard-coded to find the closest control point. Now, you instead need to add an OnAGVOffsetTravel trigger to the navigator, wherein you can direct the AGV how to offset. People Added clipboard, test tube, and pill bottle flow items. Added a Max Speed property to Equipment objects. Updated Transport and Equipment objects to do low priority returns. Added the ability to install instanced People flows. Updated the LocationStaytimeHistory chart to handle people entering and exiting transports inside a location. Process Flow Added an AGV travel activity. Updated the Sink to notify parent tokens on a Run Sub Flow activity that the child token finished the subflow. Updated the Wait for Event and Event-triggered Source activities to be able to display more than one link at a time. Updated the sampler for Universal Edit fields to display process flow variables and current labels when sampling white space. Added a pop-out library for choosing the shape of Container objects. Added a pop-out library for choosing the type of travel activity. A* Updated the Heat Map to use a Color Pallete.

FlexSim 2020 Beta is available. (Updated 26 November 2019.) To get the beta, log in to your account at www.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. Release Notes Changed models to automatically open the environment in which they were saved. Added boy and girl shapes to people visuals. Improved keyboard interactions within table views. Improved tabbing between fields in certain windows. Updated the 3D names and stats text rendering to support more fonts and Unicode. Improved the 3D view's lighting capabilities by adding Light objects that can be arranged in the model. Improved lighting in RTX Mode, including support for soft shadows and a denoiser. Adjusted the Rack Dimensions tab to be able to specify slot padding. Added an optional parameter to TaskSequence.create() for waiting until TaskSequence.finish(). Added an OnValuePulled event to the List. Added methods for creating a DateTime using a string or component parts. Added support for in-place addition and subtraction of DateTimes. Fixed bugs with DateTime methods when using certain years or ranges of time. Improved the convert() command's capabilities with converting dates and times. Improved the exporting of null bundle values to Excel. Added an excelcreateworkbook() command. Added statistics collectors and calculated tables to the Excel Export. Added an option for creating sheets using the Excel Export. Fixed rotation issues with pasting certain objects. Added a Vec3.projectRotation() method. Added a Vec2 FlexScript class. Changed the License Activation window to be responsive during licensing operations. Added an index type to statistics collector columns for improving performance. Added a categorical combo type to tracked variables. Updated the query builder to handle CASE statements. Simplified certain queries written by the query builder. Changed the tree structure to simplify creating custom webserver interfaces. Added a repeat type to animations for remaining in the last frame after running the animation. Added a Go To Row/Column option in quick properties for tables. Improved time plots to be able to show durations as well as calendar times. Added an optional wire mesh rack visualization. Added more picklist options to the storage object slot assignment strategy. Updated the animator so that keyframes are updated using a right-click menu option instead of automatically. Added an option to duplicate an animation keyframe into another animation. Changed the default network node speed limit to 0 (no speed limit). Reorganized the Use Transport pick list and added a No Transport Reference option. Fixed a bug with the rack's default pull requirement not reevaluating after becoming full. Fixed an issue with copy/pasting sub-locations. Fixed the dark patterns when zooming out in RTX Mode. Fixed a crash on certain hardware in RTX Mode when rendering too many transparent layers. Improved the Time Table Date Based GUI to draw past the last event and allow scrolling into the future. Added PushWheelchair and PushCart animations to Operators Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Time tables now combine consecutive down periods if using the same state and profile or the same down behavior. Fixed issues with pick/place offsets on drive in racks to improve usability with A*. Because of performance improvements to query(), the row order is not guaranteed unless using an ORDER BY statement. Fixed excelrangewrite() so that the correct overload is available in FlexScript. Improved the FlexScript hypertext preprocessor scoping mechanism used by the webserver. Fixed object color being applied incorrectly to ambient material color on certain meshes. Changed point source light attenuation. Changed TASKTYPE_NODEFUNCTION to pass variants in as parameters instead of interpreted legacy doubles. This fixes the types of arguments that are passed when calling treenode.evaluate() as part of a TASKTYPE_NODEFUNCTION task. This allows you to add TASKTYPE_NODEFUNCTION tasks with parameters that are not just numbers, (nodes, strings, arrays, etc.) and have those parameters be preserved in a type-safe manner and properly passed into the subsequent treenode.evaluate() call. However, this change may have some consequences for older models. The following guidelines apply: If you use the inserttask() command, and cast a node to a number with tonum() to pass it in as a task variable, then you should use parnode() to get those parameters out in the nodefunction. While this method will continue to work, this mechanism is nevertheless deprecated. The now-correct method for adding a TASKTYPE_NODEFUNCTION task to a task sequence is to use TaskSequence.addTask(). This method takes full Variants as its task variable parameters, so you do not need to use tonum(). When using this, you should use param() to get the parameters back out. Older models that use neither of these methods may need to be updated to use method 2 in order to work properly in this version. Process Flow Changed the default behavior of the Create Task Sequence activity to work easier with task sequences created outside of Process Flow. Added a Finish Task Sequence activity that works with the new Create Task Sequence features. Changed the default value of Task activities from token.resource to token.taskSequence. Improved the interface for connecting activities. Added a mechanism for connecting to and from containers and routing tokens between activities using those connections. Added an option to the Run Sub Flow activity to run tokens one at a time. Adjusted the size of containers and connections based on the zoom level when created. Removed the width attributes of themes. Improved the UI for entering times in the Date Time Source activity. Change Set Color By Case and Set Object Color pick options to enable setting the color of a token. Fixed the display of task parameters in the event log. People Improved people resource shared assets to be able to reference other people resources. Added Sort By and Filter By fields to people resources. Simplified and improved several activity sets. Improved the list of labels in drop-down menus to include People Settings labels. Added a Kiosk to the list of locations. Added an Observation Room multilocation. Added an option to the Toolbox to add all people tables to the Excel Export. Added more people tables and charts. Improved the performance of many existing people tables and charts. Updated preempted resources to be able to be reacquired with a higher priority. Updated Escort Patient and Tranpsort Patient activities to set the staff's TravelingWithPatient label when escorting or transporting a patient. Improved the query builder interface with support for adding group/individual subsets. Changed people acquire activities to have the default max wait timer trigger release the token out connector 2. Changed the Split activity default to creating child tokens in the Healthcare environment. Changed the repeat type of the LayDown and SitDown/SitDown2 animations to repeat the last frame. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Changed how labels are handled by People Settings. Improved animations and positioning of transports and equipment when staff move them. Emulation Added support for OPC UA connections.

FlexSim 2019 Update 2 Beta is available. (Updated 28 August 2019.) To get the beta, log in to your account at www.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. Release Notes Added a Storage System object to improve warehouse modeling. Improved the Rack object. Added more types of racks to the library. Updated the Sketchup SDK to load newer skp file versions. Added a ray tracing render mode. Added a Color Palette tool. Improved the color picker popup. Updated dashboard charts to use color palettes. Added options for showing column names to charts. Added options for showing multiple Y-axes on timeplots and histograms. Updated box plot options for categorizing and coloring data points. Added an option for reordering axis categories on timeplots, histograms, and box plots. Added additional line styles and visualization options to timeplots. Added Table methods for using indexed columns. Added a resetvalues attribute. Added Object getVariable() and setVariable() methods. Updated the SQL IS keyword to work with expressions. Improved performance of SQL queries on tables with indexed columns. Added an array parameter to Math.max() and Math.min(). Added a binary bundle field type. Added a button to Model Settings to export embedded media. Changed the default Person flowitem into separate Man and Woman flowitems. Added options for using the object's color to Person Visuals. Added a changepersonvisuals() command and pick options. Updated the Model Background properties window. Added a right-click option to show/hide model backgrounds from the Toolbox. Added pick options for using lists to the Pick Operator field on the processor. Updated various pick options to use generic label references. Added options to the List for special handling of SELECT values. Added Text options to Quick Properties. Added mean and standard deviation to the statistical distribution popup. Added icons to various pick option menus. Improved the Copy Variable function of Edit Selected Objects. Added the location coordinate system button to the General tab of object properties. Removed the Build menu; its options can still be added to the user toolbar. Changed the run speed slider to behave as a ratio of real time instead of model units per second. Fixed a bug with deleting array data from a node. Fixed an exception with cloning a table without rows. Fixed a bug with applying experimenter triggers. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Improved the rendering performance of some imported shapes by optimizing their meshes by material. Some mesh customizations may apply differently for some shapes. Charts now ignore null values instead of trying to categorize or plot them. Changed the FlexScript + operator to concatenate numbers with strings. Fixed some FlexScript math operations with numbers and null variants. Fixed an issue with FlexScript downcasting not always type checking properly in certain expressions. For example, "Object obj = param(1);" will now correctly throw an exception if param(1) is a treenode without Object data. Updated the Rack's place offset to be the actual location that the item will be placed. Fixed a bug with labels added during events at time 0 not being deleted on reset. Fixed a bug in Color.random(). Process Flow Changed the scroll wheel to zoom instead of panning the view up and down. Removed the extra outline around stacked blocks. Changed the default option for Release Batch on max wait timer and max idle timer to have Failed unchecked. Organized the ProcessFlow list on the toolbar based on the Toolbox folder structure. Changed Event-Triggered Source and Wait for Event panels to be collapsible. Added an edit field for the number of arrivals on the Scheduled Source. Added a getlastacquiredresource() command. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Updated Move Object's Preserve Global Position checkbox to preserve location and rotation. People Added an experiment variable for changing the number of objects in a People group. Added a visual indicator to show when objects are acquired by the shift schedule. Added A* dividers to waiting lines and other objects. Adjusted the Staff's walk back to reset position so that it is preempted if acquired by something else. Added a custom window for People Down Behaviors. Added a Keep Person on Transport checkbox to the Transport Person activity. Changed the default Arrivals activities to randomize the created person's visuals. Updated activity subflows so travelers synchronize their speeds when traveling together. Moved copying token labels to the created person to after the people settings labels are added so values aren't overwritten. Added state history tables. Conveyor Improved naming of various objects. Fixed a bug with the height of decision points when created with certain model units. Added a chain texture to conveyor belt visual options. AGV Updated curved path quick properties to be able to specify start and end points. Improved naming of control points and areas. A* Added the A* Navigator to the Toolbox. Updated the A* Navigator Properties window.

FlexSim 2019 Update 1 Beta is available. (Updated 11 April 2019) IMPORTANT NOTE: The 15-Mar beta installer has a bug that causes the current installer to hang during the Cleaning Up stage when upgrading from the 15-Mar beta to a newer beta version. We have resolved the issue for future installers, but to avoid the error now, uninstall the 15-Mar beta using Add/Remove Programs before installing the new version. To get the beta, log in to your account at www.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. Release Notes Added a new graphical interface to the Calculated Table for building queries. Updated the UI for editing rack dimensions. Added more options for customizing people visuals. Moved operator shape options from the Operator tab to Quick Properties. Improved edit modes by using right-click to cancel the current action instead of immediately exiting the mode. Added global preferences for process flow and dashboard library options. Added the FlexScript API reference to the user manual and made it accessible outside of FlexSim. Added toolbar support for adding multiple model background drawings. Adjusted how the floor Z and grid Z settings work to improve multi-floor modeling. Updated the table view to show more helpful information for certain data types. Added support for pointer data in bundles. Added a pointer type to tracked variables. Added support for the NULLIF SQL keyword. Added support for linking combo boxes to nodes with pointer data. Improved the gantt chart. Updated how tree files are saved to improve saving certain datatypes. Updated pulling from lists to throw an exception when passing a bad query. Fixed a bug with the normal map lighting calculation. Fixed an issue with the picking focus when using drawsurrogate within a drawsurrogate object. Fixed exceptions on an array table that doesn't have column header information. Fixed an issue related to moving items that had not been released. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Updated the internal structure of the Rack object's variables. Removed the rackgetcontenttable() command. Removed support for running the simulation from a loaded state file. Process Flow Added an option to the container to center its title when the contents are hidden. Added a limit to the number of activity panels displayed in quick properties. Added a Milestone activity. People Added a Healthcare environment option. Added an Elevator Bank object. Added a Prop object and more options for object visuals. Added tables that automatically collect statistics for people models. Added people chart templates. Added a People Settings object to the toolbox for people models. Improved the names of people created with the Create Person activity. AGV Updated the distancetotravel() calculation to work with moving AGVs. A* Added support for multiple grids. Adjusted how conditions are defined to improve performance.

FlexSim 2019 Beta is available. (Updated 21 December 2018) To get the beta, log in to your account at www.flexsim.com, then go to the Downloads section, and click on More Versions. It will be at the top of the list. If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please email dev@flexsim.com or create a new idea in the Development space. Release Notes Added support for importing JT files. Added a way to directly animate 3D shapes with bones. Added a way to parent subcomponents to a bone on a 3D shape. Updated calculated tables and chart templates to be able to save their data during an experiment. Added support for SQL keywords UNION, UNION ALL, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT. Updated the time table's weekly and daily modes to use a graphical display. Improved the time table's user interface. Added options for stacking bars on a histogram and added more bar modes. Added a Column Sets feature to statistics collectors. Added more options for event listening in statistics collectors. Added an option to statistics collectors and calculated tables for object path display depth. Added an option to statistics collectors to stop tracking row values after specified events. Added an option to milestone collectors to start new entries on the next milestone. Added options to record more data in additional columns on a milestone collector. Added enable/disable right-click menu options to statistics collectors in the toolbox. Improved the performance of calculated tables in certain configurations. Fixed a bug with Always Leave Entries on List when reevaluating multiple back orders. Fixed a bug with color spilling from one mesh to another when using shape data overrides. Fixed scaling issues and a crashing bug when loading certain STEP and IGES files. Process Flow Improved the Token.create() method to be able to create child tokens. Added a new Person Flow type of Process Flow. Fixed a bug with a resource connected to a global list deleting the list when the resource was in an instanced flow. People Added a Process activity. Added a Remove Person activity. Added various activity sets to quickly create common groups of activities. Added a priority value to resource objects that is used for acquiring and preempting resources. Added advanced options to the Process activity for handling preemption. Added functionality for simulating shift schedules with time tables and down behaviors. Improved the UI for how people objects are added to groups. AGV Improved control point selection on paths in the 3D view. A* Added a way to draw a heat map based on a node's percentage of total traversals. Added a Two Way option to preferred paths and dividers. Added a Condition option to A* objects to optionally disable them under certain circumstances. Added a Mandatory Path object used for defining sets of paths where certain connected objects can travel. Updated the Barrier object to be able to specify patterns to determine how it affects the grid. Added a FlexScript API for A* objects and data. Backwards Compatibility Note: the following changes may slightly change the way updated models behave. Fixed a bug with A* barriers blocking space larger than their actual size.