Two different Color on Same Item?

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Ankur A3 asked Jun 20, '22 Jeanette F commented Jun 23, '22

Two different Color on Same Item?

Hi Team,

I am working on model where item has to pass through 2 processes. First process gives it red color and second process gives it green color. For the purpose of visual verification, I am planning to showcase both the color on item once process is finished as below:

Is there any way to do it?

20.06.2022_2ColorOnSameItem.fsm

Also, how can be scale it up for more colors if required?

Thank you!

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.10

item visual color

1655707667781.png (349 B)

20062022-2coloronsameitem.fsm (28.3 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Jun 20, 2022 at 07:02 AM

Exchange texture bitmap:
add an drawsurrogate object in animation creator to enhance objects at items.
try to add a opnengl pane to your object
insert a plane object into your item

my favorite is an added object in animation creator

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Ankur A3 Joerg Vogel commented · Jun 20, 2022 at 02:03 PM

Hi @Joerg Vogel,

Thanks for your suggestion!

I don't have much idea for the options given. Can you share model with the easiest way to do it?

Thank you!

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Jun 23, 2022 at 04:16 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-06-20T14:55:38Z

Joerg Vogel answered Jun 20, '22

drawsurrogate objects are added in animaition creator. It is a tool in more visuals from quick properties pane of a selected item. If you want to change it globally, you make a copy of box item in flow item bin and heighlight your copied item. Select more visuals then. Edit in Visuals/Animation opens the animation creator. We won't add animations, just more objects. Click green plus icon next to components left bottom section. You get an box object each time with a dimension of 1x1x1. You highlight the object eg. object0 and adjust size to 0.2 0.2 0.1 and location to 0.1 -0.1 0.3. A smaller box in a blue color tone is above your brown box item.

The reference to this drawsurrogate object is in an trigger 'item.attrs.drawsurrogate.subnodes[1]'

set_color_drawsurrogate_object_on_item.fsm

set-color-drawsurrogate-object-on-item-1.jpg (84.9 KiB)

set-color-drawsurrogate-object-on-item-2.jpg (19.6 KiB)

set-color-drawsurrogate-object-on-item.fsm (26.9 KiB)

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