How to solve this annimation issue

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royjuventus29 asked Feb 25, '24 Felix Möhlmann answered Feb 26, '24

How to solve this annimation issue

I made an animation but there are some issues. I would like to let the cylinders move along the conveyors looking like a continuous flow.

However, before entering the curved conveyor, there is always a still cylinder there, I would like to remove it.

Besides, the cylinder on the curved conveyor disappears too early. I would like to keep it visible until reaching the end side of the curved conveyor and make it a continuous movement. I have uploaded the files, could anyone help me solve this issue? Thank you very much!

flexsimmodel.7z

Software Version:

FlexSim 24.0.0

flexscript animation

animationissue.gif (359.7 KiB)

flexsimmodel.7z (1.9 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2024-02-26T07:46:43Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Feb 26, '24

The static object at the start is the actual item, the moving object is the surrogate of the animation. You can set the processor to not show its contents, so the actual item is hidden.

When a second item enters the processor, the animation is started again from the beginning. Each object can only run one animation at a time.

To move multiple items you can use kinematics.

Or, probably the simplest solution, use invisible conveyors to move the item and only add the shape to dummy objects for visualization.

invis_conveyor_fm.fsm

1708933399728.png (128.5 KiB)

invis-conveyor-fm.fsm (272.8 KiB)

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