Stuck Tutorial 4 - rolls not destroying

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James Engelhart asked Jun 17, '20 Regan Blackett answered Jun 17, '20

Stuck Tutorial 4 - rolls not destroying

I am trying to get up to speed on the new (to me) process flows by running through the tutorials. I seem to be stuck in T4. All was working well in the previous step and now the sticker machines don't get replenished. The System Console shows something wrong with the Destroy Object: Empty Roll and the tokens pile up there, but I'm not sure what is wrong. Looking at the tokens, they don't seem to have anything entered in the rollObject label - is that because they were the initial sticker rolls and not new ones?

any help greatly appreciated as I have a short time frame.

Tutorial4.4_8.fsm

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FlexSim 20.1.2

processflow flexsim 20.1.2

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Answer 1 · 2020-06-17T13:54:57Z

Regan Blackett answered Jun 17, '20 Regan Blackett commented Jun 17, '20

The Rolls are being sent to the sinks after the processor, thus losing their reference for the destroy object activity. I'm not familiar with this tutorial, but it looks like you were meant to select "Create At" instead of "Create in" for the create object activity; by choosing "Create in" that means the Roll object gets processed by the processor as if it were any other flow item, which also means it goes to the sink. "Create At" means the roll gets created in the model space but at the coordinates of the target object, current.

Also you were missing a connector after your resume machine and assign labels activities in the Sticker Roll Usage flow.

You also have a bad task sequence reference on the Load task, it should reference the task sequence created at your Create task sequence activity, not the roll object..

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