How can I identify an item to be a tote?

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Joerg Vogel asked Jan 6, '17 Mischa Spelt answered Jan 6, '17

How can I identify an item to be a tote?

A taskexecuter loads several items one after another. While he loads an item I'd like to know which itemclass that is? The Flexsim objects are identified by their class and subclass which I can compare to the objects in the library tree. I find the items in the Flowitem Bin. But they all have just the itemtype node and a shape node, sometimes the eventfunction OnReceive. I haven't found a node that classify them persistent in their origin formerly as a tote, a pallet or a box. How can I identify an item easily?

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FlexSim 17.0.0

identify flowitem

Answer 1 · 2017-01-06T10:11:08Z

Mischa Spelt answered Jan 6, '17

Hi Jörg,

Besides the obvious solution of having the source create a label or variable on the item to keep track of the class, you could check the shape of the item. For example, if you want to know whether the item is a box, you could try something like

int boxImageIndex = getobjectimageindex( main.find( "/project/exec/globals/FlowItemBin/Box/Box" ) );
treenode flowItem  = model().find("Queue4").first;
int isBox = getobjectimageindex( flowItem ) == boxImageIndex;
msg( "Is it a box?", isBox ? "It is a box!" : "It is not a box...", 1 );

Answer 2 · 2017-01-06T09:54:13Z

Arun Kr answered Jan 6, '17

Dear Joerg Vogel,

I think by name you can identify. For instance, a tote object is having the name tote, a box is having name box and pallet having name pallet.

Regards,

Arun KR

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