How to make the operator carry the flowitem with another orientation?

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Lilian Fonseca asked Jun 3, '16 Joerg Vogel edited Jun 3, '16

How to make the operator carry the flowitem with another orientation?

My operator needs to carry long rectangular boxes. In the default simulation, he carries the object so that it is vertical, as you can see in the figure I attached. Is there any way to make the operator carry the object so that it is horizontal to him?

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FlexSim 16.0.1

operator flowitem

operatorcarryingissue.png (67.4 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2016-06-03T17:39:43Z

Jeff Nordgren answered Jun 3, '16 Lilian Fonseca commented Jun 3, '16

It depends on how the flowitem should be oriented throughout the model. But there are two ways of doing this.

First, (bottom example in model) is to set the orientation (size) of the flowitem in Source13 to be how you want the flowitem to look in the model. And that would be the only change necessary for this option.

Second, (top example in model) is to make code changes in the OnLoad and OnUnload of Operator7. Take a look at the model and the code in Operator7 and see if this is what you were wanting to do.

Here is the model: flowitemorientation-fs1.fsm

flowitemorientation-fs1.fsm (23.6 KiB)

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Lilian Fonseca commented · Jun 03, 2016 at 06:14 PM

That worked. I used you second option because it fits better with my production line. Thanks!

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Answer 2 · 2016-06-03T17:23:43Z

Joerg Vogel answered Jun 3, '16 Joerg Vogel edited Jun 3, '16

Try to set the rotation of the item in the Queue's OnExit-Trigger to the desired orientation. Set the orientation back to the old values in the OnUnload-Trigger of the Taskexecuter.

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Lilian Fonseca commented · Jun 03, 2016 at 06:14 PM

It works, but it seems the product is "flying" above the operator's hands.

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Joerg Vogel Lilian Fonseca commented · Jun 03, 2016 at 06:17 PM

you can set the location, too. There is another approach, you can set the size, location and rotation of the shape in relation to the yellow object frame: Flow item bin go to the properties of the flow item (e.g. double click) > General tab > Shape Factors > Edit .

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