Move Flow item into TaskExecuter's animation object

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CHRISTIAN B3 asked Nov 15, '24 Jeanette F commented Dec 2, '24

Move Flow item into TaskExecuter's animation object

MoveFlowItemIntoAnimationObject - 24.fsm

In this small model we have a tray animated object belonging to an AGV TE.

My final objective is to be able to animate the box flow item accordingly to the tray object animation, without using kinematics.

I thought that if I could be able to unload the box, not into the TE, mas into the animatable object (orange tray), the rest would follow.

Is it possible to move/unload the flow item into the animated object ?

I created the object reference like below but gives the error message: "Invalid down cast, Object is not an instance of the target type".

Thank you

Software Version:

FlexSim 24.2.2

agv taskexecutors animations

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Dec 02 at 05:57 PM

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Answer 1 · 2024-11-26T21:05:28Z

Lucas Klein answered Nov 26, '24 Joerg Vogel commented Nov 27, '24

The feature that you are looking for, is called DrawSurrogate, it allows you to replace a surrogate item inside your custom animation with a flowitem from your model without direct coding.

At the link below you can find more info about how to use and configure the drawSurrogate inside animations:

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/24.2/Using3DObjects/CreatingCustomObjectsAnimations/CreatingCustomAnimations/CreatingCustomAnimations.html#components

You can also look for example models here in the answers forum that uses draw surrogate.

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Joerg Vogel commented · Nov 27 at 08:41 AM

Phil Bobo attached some tutorials of an older FlexSim version as PDF files to an answer. https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/83111/how-to-use-draw-surrogate-correctly.html

A tag to this answer is “animation tutorial”. @CHRISTIAN B3, If an answer takes to long, you may find an given answer in this forum yourself faster.

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