Assumed configurations   All steps below assume that you followed the installation instructions as described in our license server installation instructions, and that all FlexSim's license server files were extracted to the location C:\FlexSim_LMTOOLS. Throughout these instructions we will reference files inside that folder.   Reread the license   Within your FlexSim_LMTOOLS folder, right-click lmtools.exe and choose Run as administrator. You may need to accept a permissions prompt. Go to the Start/Stop/Reread tab. Choose the FlexNet License service for your FlexSim licenses. The name of the service could be FlexSim_License, but the service could have been given a different name. Press the ReRead License File button. Close lmtools.

Not sure about the differences between network and standalone licenses? No worries! Read on for an in-depth explanation of each license model: Standalone Licensing (Client-Activatable) Network Licensing (Server-Concurrent) You can also download our printable reference, which includes some example scenarios: Standalone vs Network Licensing.pdf. Standalone Licensing (Client-Activatable) Once a standalone license is activated to a PC it remains there permanently until it is returned. The PC could be rebooted, taken offline, or even have FlexSim uninstalled - the license remains on the PC. The steps to activate and return a license are user-accessible from within FlexSim software. Once FlexSim is installed, there are no special PC permissions required to activate or return licenses. See our licensing procedures article for instructions for managing your standalone licenses (activate, return, repair, upgrade). User-managed license movement The ability for the user to activate and return their license at will is a big advantage. It allows teams the freedom to share a license, while still giving individuals the freedom to take a license off-site or off-Internet. As long as a team sharing a license communicates effectively, the license can be passed around to whoever needs it at the moment, by returning the license from one PC and activating to another. History Log FlexSim's main license server logs a license's activation/return history, including who last activated (in case you need to contact someone about returning it!). The license history log can be viewed by any FlexSim account that can view the license. This includes the license owner and any account the owner has shared with. Your activation IDs (the license codes copied into FlexSim to activate your license) can be shared and visible - including the activation history - with every member of your group. See the Sharing tab on your FlexSim account's Licenses page. Trusted Storage Your standalone FlexSim licenses are activated to a special holding area on your computer called Trusted Storage, which exists outside and independently of FlexSim software. FlexSim's activation process will authenticate your computer with our main license server and store your license credentials in Trusted Storage, completely outside of any FlexSim installation. You could uninstall FlexSim, but your license will still reside in your computer's Trusted Storage. You would need to reinstall FlexSim in order to access the return functionality to move your license off of your computer. So, you can go ahead and use ANY version of FlexSim to activate ANY version of your license so that it will be stored in your computer's Trusted Storage. Whether the activated license will enable features in your version of the software is a separate question - and as a quick reminder, FlexSim's licenses are backward-compatible, meaning that if you have a 21.2 license, you can use that with any version of the software up to version 21.2.x, including all older versions back to 5.0. The crux is, your standalone license can be accessed by any version of FlexSim installed on your computer, regardless of what version was used when activating the license, because all versions just put your license into Trusted Storage, and all versions check license rights by reading out of Trusted Storage. Standalone pros User-level control of the license gives flexibility in who has the license at any given moment. FlexSim maintains the license server, so you don't have to (avoids complexity of installing, configuring, maintaining, and upgrading your own separate license server). Online tools to see the license history and who currently has the license (via your FlexSim Account). In-software auto-upgrades makes upgrading your license easy. Standalone cons People sharing the license need to coordinate who will use it when and remember to return the license when unused. Lost, stolen, or broken licenses require interaction with your local FlexSim rep to fix. Network Licensing (Server-Concurrent) Let's begin with an overview of the setup (simplified from our license server installation instructions😞 Provision a computer/VM to act as the license server. It should remain powered on and attached to the network at all times. Activate your FlexSim licenses to your local license server. Install and configure the license manager software. Configure firewalls and permissions on the server and/or network to allow communication with FlexSim client PCs. Next, the client PCs: Install FlexSim on the client PC. Configure licensing settings in the client software to point to the license server. Configure firewalls and permissions on the client PC and/or network to allow communication with the license server. The network connection between client and server must be maintained throughout use of FlexSim software. If the network connection breaks, FlexSim software reverts to the feature-limited Express mode. This sort of setup is great for computer labs at universities, for instance, where there are many client PCs, and license server hardware or virtual machine is easy to obtain or already exists. Also, where the client PCs are stationary and always on the network, and where network topology makes it easy for the clients to stay connected to the server. Opening FlexSim software requests a seat from the organization's license server. Closing the software returns the seat. Network pros Allows for management of many licenses (seats) from a single location. Some server settings are customizable (Options files can be quite powerful - see chapter 13). Licenses can never become lost or stranded on client PCs. If a client PC loses its connection to the server, the server will reclaim the seat after a timeout period (default timeout is 15 minutes). Network cons Complexity of installing, configuring, maintaining, and upgrading a separate license server. Client PCs must maintain a constant connection to the server. No online record of activations/returns (but you can examine your own raw server logs).

Neste Tutorial iremos demonstrar como criar uma apresentação do seu modelo no FlexSim, utilizando a ferramenta Flypath (Presentation Builder). Com esta ferramenta você poderá criar sua apresentação de forma rápida fazendo um filme de seu modelo. Nela você poderá definir vistas e os tempos entre as transições destas vistas no modelo. Apresentação a qual você poderá gravar em um vídeo de alta definição no próprio FlexSim, utilizando outra ferramenta chamada Video Recorder. Vamos lá! Assista o vídeo em nosso canal do YouTube e acompanhe as informações explicativas abaixo. Presentation Builder Após construir seu modelo acesse o Flypath para definir como o seu modelo se movimentará durante a apresentação, clicando em: Tools / Visual / Flypath Na janela Presentation Builder você irá criar um novo Flypath1 clicando em Então é só você selecionar a vista em seu modelo e clicar em , no centro da janela para definir uma vista, dentro do Flypath1 então movimente o cursor de tempo e selecione uma segunda vista, clicando novamente em . Este será o tempo em que a apresentação levará para chegar até a segunda vista definida por você. Você pode criar vários flypaths cada um com seu próprio conjunto de flypoints. Quando executado, a visualização 3D voará sequencialmente ou mover-se-á para cada flypoint no flypath. Por padrão, flypaths não estão associados com velocidade de simulação. Não se preocupe, o Presentation Builder vai definir para você todo o movimento entre as 2 vistas. Após concluir sua apresentação é só clicar em retornar para a primeira vista e rodar o Flypath , então você verá a apresentação levando em conta as vistas e o tempo definido no seu modelo em 3D. O Presentation Builder tem seu próprio conjunto de botões Iniciar e Parar. No entanto, ao usar o gravador de vídeo, você pode especificar um seu flypaths para ser executado durante a gravação de seu arquivo. Você também pode usar os botões e para caminhar entre as vistas, flypoints, definidas. Video Recorder Após construir sua apresentação utilizando o Flypath vamos gravar esta apresentação em vídeo! Para isso acesse: Tools / Visual / Video Recorder Na janela Video Recorder você irá configurar o seu vídeo para poder iniciar a gravação! Primeiro clicando em você cria um novo arquivo File Path de vídeo para ser exportado para seu computador. Lembramos que este procedimento pode ser feito para um conjunto de videos. Na seleção Codec, você pode escolher qual o codec que será usado para a gravação do seu vídeo, o mais comum é gravarmos em MPEG-4, (*.mp4). Selecione na sequencia a quantidade de frames por segundo que o seu vídeo será gravado, selecione por exemplo 30 para a opção FPS. Na etapa seguinte, Size, você poderá definir a resolução e o tamanho do seu vídeo Neste exemplo iremos utilizar a opção "use basic sequence" na qual iremos definir o Flypath1 criado como referencia para a gravação do vídeo. Logo é só definirmos o tempo para o início e fim do vídeo e sua velocidade no modelo 3D. Lembre-se que o tempo do Flypath tem que estar dentro do tamanho do vídeo, caso contrário o Flypath irá se repetir. Exemplo: Para um Flypath de 20 segundos e uma velocidade de Speed 4, teremos que gravar um vídeo de 5 segundos. Lembre-se de utilizar a Amostra "Sample" para selecionar no seu modelo 3D a vista a qual o vídeo iniciará a gravação em View, utilize a primeira vista definida no seu Flypath. Após concluir as configurações clique em Record, no canto esquerdo da janela Video Recorder. Pronto! Seu vídeo será gravado e poderá ser acessado em: Segue o modelo referente ao artigo: modelo-flypath-videorecorder.fsm Inscreva-se e acompanhe nosso canal de videos no YouTube FlexSim Brasil

Flexsim 2021 Update 1 is now available for download. You can view the Release Notes in the online user manual. For more in depth discussion and videos of the new features, check out https://www.flexsim.com/news/flexsim-2021-update-1-pre-built-agv-logic-bottle-shapes-and-more/ 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.

Você tem dúvidas sobre a picklist Values by case? Este Tutorial vai apresentar uma visão geral e fazer um rápido exemplo. Acesse o link : https://youtu.be/d0XVlQlRvmA

Have you ever encountered this error?   ERROR: flxActCommonHandleOpen - (50003,71000,10103) "This is an internal error."   This error has been observed when attempting to activate a FlexSim license on a license server using flexsimserveractutil.exe when the underlying Flexnet licensing service is outdated.   To fix this error, update your FlexNet Licensing Service 64 to the latest version by doing the following:   Download the latest license server tools (direct link). Extract the files to a convenient location. Navigate into the flexsimserveractutil folder. Right click flexsimserveractutil.exe and choose Run as Administrator. Go to Tools > Licensing Service > Install Anchor Service.   For more information, see License Server - FlexNet Licensing Service 64.

FlexSim 2025 Update 2 is now available for download.   You can view the Release Notes in the online user manual.   FlexSim 25.2.0 Release Notes   If you have bug reports or other feedback on the software, please create a new post in FlexSim Forums.

En este video aprenderán a utilizar el objetivo visual Text para nombrar partes de un modelo de simulación o visualizar estadísticas de forma dinámica. Para más videos tutoriales pueden suscribirse al canal de YouTube de FlexSim Andina y acceder a nuestra lista de reproducción de FlexTips.

Does your license server randomly stop serving your FlexSim seats? When you check the logs, do you see error messages like the following? 5:34:42 (flexsim) Trusted storage binding change detected! Vendor daemon is being shutdown. 5:34:42 (flexsim) EXITING DUE TO SIGNAL 65 Exit reason 42 5:34:47 (lmgrd) flexsim exited with status 65 (Trusted storage binding change detected.) 5:34:47 (lmgrd) Vendor daemon shutdown - trusted storage binding change detected. Hosting your license server on a VM Many organizations host their license servers on virtual machines and this is a perfectly fine and fully supported way to host your licenses. However, you should be aware that some common virtual machine workflows can disrupt your license server. For instance, you may encounter the errors above if you restored your VM's state to a live snapshot. A live snapshot takes a snapshot of memory as well as disk. Hyper-V is an example of a hypervisor that allows live snapshotting. If a virtual machine does a revert-to-live-snapshot operation, restoring the memory and disk to a previous state, it can interrupt the integrity of your server's trusted storage. To prevent any corruption of your Trusted Storage state, Trusted-Storage-based license servers poll Trusted Storage every 90 seconds to determine if a snapshot restore has occurred. Hence, within at least two minutes of a Trusted-Storage-based license server being reverted, it will shut down, with server log messages similar to the log block above. This shutdown helps preserve the integrity of your license server's local trusted storage. Restoring functionality As you can see at the bottom of the error message, the resultant state of your license server is that your vendor daemon is shut down. This means that your license server is no longer serving FlexSim seats. To restore full functionality, simply start (or restart) the service from Windows services: Or if you're hosting your licenses with lmadmin, start (or restart) the vendor daemon:

Receiving products from the bottled water manufacturing plant using 11 Rial Guide Vehicles (RGVs) for transportation to the Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS), which serves all three production lines. The RGVs' operation works as follows: when products are placed in the receiving buffer with two available positions, the system immediately sends commands to the RGVs to pick up the products from the buffer. The RGVs prioritize picking up the nearest products first. Consequently, the production line located farthest away (Production Line 1) experiences the highest downtime from January to May 2566, with an average downtime of 449.48 minutes. Production Line 2 has an average downtime of 65.12 minutes, while Production Line 3 experiences 76.00 minutes of downtime during the same period. If a production line stops for more than 20 minutes, it requires a complete drainage of the ongoing production process, including scrapping all unfinished goods. This significantly increases the production costs. Consequently, conducting experiments to address this issue becomes complicated, as full-scale production is necessary to identify the causes and implement effective solutions. Thus, stopping production for testing purposes is not a viable approach in this case.

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 2024 is now available for download. You can view the Release Notes in the online user manual. FlexSim 24.0.0 Release Notes For more in-depth discussion of the new features, check out the official software release page: FlexSim 2024: Workspaces, Person Visuals, USD Support, and more 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.

Dear FlexSim user, Update: Please see the FlexSim Newsroom announcement here: FlexSim Answers to migrate to Autodesk Forums on April 25 | FlexSim Original First and foremost, thank you for being an active and valued member of our forum. Your contributions help make this community a valuable resource for everyone, and we truly appreciate your participation. As you may know, FlexSim was acquired by Autodesk in late 2023. As part of this transition, we will be migrating some of our tools, including this forum, to a new platform which we expect to be completed by May 2025. You will be able to access Autodesk forums here. What This Means for You: Seamless Knowledge Transfer – All existing forum content will be migrated, ensuring continued access to the wealth of knowledge shared by our community. A Community-Driven Experience – The forum will evolve into a more self-sustaining, peer-to-peer support hub. While FlexSim support engineers will still visit the forum, when possible, our goal is to empower users to help each other, making this a truly community-led space. Ongoing Support for Entitled Users – We will share more details soon on how eligible users can reach the FlexSim support team directly. For now, we encourage you to continue engaging with the forum as you always have. Your involvement is what makes this community thrive, and we’re excited to embark on this new chapter together. Stay tuned for more updates and thank you for being an essential part of FlexSim! Best, The FlexSim Team

Node-locked Node-locked can only be activated once. Be sure that you install the license where you would like it to be installed for the next year. FlexSim can assist with one migration for extenuating circumstances, such as a crashed computer, but there will be fees for any additional migrations. Please contact your distributor to receive assistance with moving your license. The node-locked license feature of terminal server usage (remote desktop) is disabled and cannot be enabled. Transferable There is no limit to the number of times a license seat can be activated and returned. If the transferable license is not a network license, then by default the license feature of terminal server usage (remote desktop) is disabled.    Please reference other articles or our documentation for further information about licensing.

En este video aprenderán cómo crear rutas de viaje de Ejecutores de Tareas usando el Navegador de Red. Para más videos tutoriales pueden suscribirse al canal de YouTube de FlexSim Andina y acceder a nuestra lista de reproducción de FlexTips.

En este video aprenderán a usar los Triggers de los objetos 3D para escribir los datos que recopilan en una Tabla Global. Para más videos tutoriales pueden suscribirse al canal de YouTube de FlexSim Andina y acceder a nuestra lista de reproducción de FlexTips.

En este video aprenderán cómo usar el objeto Elevator o ascensor de FlexSim como Ejecutor de Tareas para transportar FlowItems entre diferentes niveles o pisos de un modelo de simulación. Para más videos tutoriales pueden suscribirse al canal de YouTube de FlexSim Andina y acceder a nuestra lista de reproducción de FlexTips.

En este video aprenderán cómo se usa el objeto 3D Multiprocesador, el cual se utiliza para simular el procesamiento de FlowItems en operaciones ordenadas secuencialmente. Para más videos tutoriales pueden suscribirse al canal de YouTube de FlexSim Andina y acceder a nuestra lista de reproducción de FlexTips.

En este video aprenderán a crear diferentes layouts en un modelo de simulación de FlexSim usando la herramienta Model Layout. Para más videos tutoriales pueden suscribirse al canal de YouTube de FlexSim Andina y acceder a nuestra lista de reproducción de FlexTips.

En este video aprenderán a usar la operación Increment Value para cambiar dinámicamente el valor de una Etiqueta en un modelo de simulación usando las propiedades de los objetos 3D de FlexSim. Para más videos tutoriales pueden suscribirse al canal de YouTube de FlexSim Andina y acceder a nuestra lista de reproducción de FlexTips.