Difficulty setting up Flexsimpy

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Afonso Silva asked Jun 6, '24 Logan Gold commented Jun 13, '24

Difficulty setting up Flexsimpy

I'm trying to understand the following steps about setting up Flexsimpy:

I need to know what should be done exactly because i have little experience with visual studio. So could someone tell me the exact steps to do this set up, so I undersand? It would be a great help to explain to me the "Open the FlexSimPy.sln solution in visual studio"

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FlexSim 24.1.0

development flexsimpy visual studio

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ commented · Jun 06 at 03:59 PM

What is your goal? If you're just trying to call a python function from FlexSim and you have a supported version installed then you don't need to do any of that.

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Afonso Silva Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ commented · Jun 07 at 07:50 AM

Well I want read a file with pre programed commands using a python code and then translate it to FlexSim. Is there an easier way to do that?

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ Afonso Silva commented · Jun 07 at 11:41 AM

What event is instigating this? If it's FlexSim then just have FlexSim call a python function to read the file and return the content to FlexSim in your preferred format.

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Logan Gold ♦♦ commented · Jun 13 at 11:08 PM

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Answer 1 · 2024-06-07T20:27:34Z

Jordan Johnson answered Jun 7, '24

Some of the resources we provide (such as FlexSimPy) are designed for an audience with some development experience. Considering your current level of experience, I would recommend a different path.

As @Jason Lightfoot points out, there are other ways you can work with FlexSim in Python:

You can call Python commands from a FlexSim model
You can launch FlexSim as a separate process with code like subprocess.Popen()
- flexsim.exe [model path] [options]
- "path/to/flexsim.exe" "path/to/model.fsm" /myflag 1
You can read command line values in FlexSim
- if (commandlineparam("myflag") == "1") { do something }
You can read/write files in FlexSim.
- It is common to write a file using Python and read that file in FlexSim.
You can run a script from the command line: /maintenance runscript /scriptpath "path/to/script.txt"
You can add code to the OnModelOpen trigger for a given model.

Maybe the above options will give you some ideas. It seems likely that you'll be able to accomplish your goal using those tools.

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