When Conveyor Switches Direction -Transfers Not Shifting Automatically

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Arun Kr asked Oct 11, '23 Arun Kr commented Oct 27, '23

When Conveyor Switches Direction -Transfers Not Shifting Automatically

Hi,

When we do a switch direction on a conveyor that is connected to an upstream or a downstream object. The entry and exit transfers remain in the same position as that of the initial direction. It's not switching its position automatically to cater to the change in the conveyor direction. If the transfers adjust automatically it will be helpful. Currently, we have to do it manually to establish the material flow in the conveyor.

SwitchDirection.fsm

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Arun KR

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FlexSim 23.2.1

conveyors

switchdirection.fsm (38.7 KiB)

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Oct 18, 2023 at 04:43 PM

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Oct 18, 2023 at 06:15 PM

@Arun Kr The switch direction button is currently working as designed. It's meant to be used during model building to help you more easily lay out conveyors. Like if you create your layout and realized that you pointed some the wrong direction you can click that button to point them the right way. But you wouldn't want to move the transfers around in that case since everything else is positioned correctly.

Also, this feels like a contrived example. Most models have much more complicated conveyor layouts than this. How do you decide which transfers need to be moved? We don't really understand what you're doing or what issue you're running in to. Can you give us a more thorough example of why this is an issue for you?

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Arun Kr Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Oct 27, 2023 at 05:30 AM

I have a requirement in which after building the model in a straight line, I need to arrange the machines/conveyor according to a layout suggested by the client using a code. At that time I may have to change to direction of some conveyors to the opposite direction by code. On changing the direction, a separate code is again required to change the locations of the entry and exit transfers. Bcoz of this, I felt that on changing the direction of the conveyor the attached exit and entry transfer which are at the start and end locations of the conveyor shall swap their positions.

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Oct 24, 2023 at 02:59 PM

Hi @Arun Kr,

We haven't heard back from you. Did you see Matthews questions?

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Answer 1 · 2023-10-12T18:57:45Z

Kavika F answered Oct 12, '23

Hey @Arun Kr, I will submit this to the dev team. Thank you for pointing this out to us.

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