Floor Storage: How to automatically orient items to fit into slot

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Theresa B asked Oct 26, '22 Jason Lightfoot commented Oct 31, '22

Floor Storage: How to automatically orient items to fit into slot

Hello, brains trust,

I've found that if I have 1 item that is stored in a floor storage at one orientation and then downstream is stored in a floor storage at a different orientation, the FlowItem retains its orientation from when it was stored in the first floor storage. Is there a way to change the visual so that the FlowItem fits in its slot (automatic or otherwise)?

Here's a model showing the problem I'm having: autoOrientItem.fsm

Thanks in advance!

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Updated model with Change Visual: autoOrientItemv2.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.2.1

visual floorstorage orientation

autoorientitem.fsm (67.3 KiB)

autoorientitemv2.fsm (66.8 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Oct 26, 2022 at 05:05 AM

This is a feature not applied by FlexSim as a predefined picklist option. You have to develop this alone.

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Answer 1 · 2022-10-26T13:58:58Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Oct 26, '22 Jason Lightfoot commented Oct 31, '22

Add a Change Visual activity to rotate the item 90 degrees:

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Theresa B commented · Oct 26, 2022 at 10:28 PM

Thanks for taking a look, Jason!

I'd tried this immediately after Joerg's comment but got some unexpected behaviours that I was hoping to solve before I updated my question. Initially, I placed the Change Visual after the Unload Slot (because I'm not using slot.hasSpace(), just checking the number of items in each slot), so I wondered if that was the problem but when I tried Change Visual before FindSlot where you had put it, I got similar unexpected behaviours.

Noting that Floor Storage 2 has 5 bays:

but there are 4 columns of item and 2 vacant bays:

Also, the grey item floating in the back is one that I dragged from sitting exactly where the top left pink item can be seen. Most of the items on the right of that one are similarly overlaid despite the floor storage having enough height to fit two items stacked. Can you replicate this behaviour? Is it because by setting the rotation, all the other auto-fitting setting are overridden? Is the only solution a chunky piece of Custom Code that checks for slot content and then sets location and rotation dependent on that information?

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ Theresa B commented · Oct 27, 2022 at 03:22 PM

Post your latest model then since the one you posted does use hasSpace:

WHERE slot.storageObject.name = 'FloorStorage2'  AND slot.slotItems.length < 2  AND slot.hasSpace($1.item) ORDER BY slot.bayID DESC

Also - give your process flows meaningful names rather than ProcessFlow1,2,3, etc.

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Theresa B Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ commented · Oct 27, 2022 at 10:20 PM

Apologies, I hadn't realised I'd posted an older version of the model!

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ Theresa B commented · Oct 29, 2022 at 01:36 PM

Change the stacking order to use Z+ first and you should see the correct locaitons being used:

autoorientitemv2jl.fsm

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Theresa B Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ commented · Oct 31, 2022 at 12:57 AM

Thanks for the fix, Jason! What's the logic behind the behaviour? I'd have thought that since the items are off the mark on the x-plane, the fix should have involved the x plane and not the z plane?

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