Packed items appear outside combined object

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Emma KG2 asked Jul 13, '21 Eric M commented Jul 19, '21

Packed items appear outside combined object

Hi. I'm a new Flexsim user and I'm trying to combine 15 smaller boxes into a large box using the combiner. These are later to be stacked on a pallet. However, when packing the items, some of the smaller boxes appear outside of the larger box, and I cannot seem to correct this issue. Is there anyone who might know what is the issue and can explain how I can correct it? Thanks in advance!

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FlexSim 21.1.4

combiner visual error

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Eric M commented · Jul 19, 2021 at 09:41 PM

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Answer 1 · 2021-07-13T16:01:52Z

Lars Christian J2 answered Jul 13, '21 Lars Christian J2 edited Jul 13, '21

Hi Emma,

Lets talk on teams or call me

Answer 2 · 2021-07-13T14:59:57Z

Joerg Vogel answered Jul 13, '21 Joerg Vogel commented Jul 13, '21

Use a tote flow item instead of a large box. Totes and pallets have already activated packaging methods by default.

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Joerg Vogel commented · Jul 13, 2021 at 03:06 PM

The problem happens because the packed item is moved from one space into another space and keeps its location values. If you address the right reference of the packed item, you can set a different location in the Space of the container flow item. The packaging method has several options to set a new location in relation of already packed items. All items have the ability to pack other items by such a method, but only totes and pallets have those packaging methods activated by default.

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