How to convert CAD drawing to Conveyors.

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Sunil B2 asked Aug 13 2021 at 1:52 PM Jeanette F commented Aug 18 2021 at 5:38 PM

How to convert CAD drawing to Conveyors.

I have a CAD drawing of conveyors and I am trying to overlay conveyors on top of it to set them up quickly. It seems the CAD plane is different and is always on top.

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FlexSim 21.2.0

flexsim 21.2.0 cad files conveyor control

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Answer 1 · 2021-08-13T17:06:47Z

Joerg Vogel answered Aug 13 2021 at 5:06 PM Joerg Vogel commented Aug 14 2021 at 7:14 PM

I put a node under the visual node of a conveyor attributes tree. I named it "drawsurrogate". Under this node I dragged a Basic FR Object from 3D library. The engine tells me, that this is not an obviously container, but I ignored. This Basic FR object is now a part of the conveyor. I can edit,exchange any shape, resize it and set a different location. conveyor_gets_a_drawsurrogate_object.fsm

drawsurrogate-object-in-conveyor.gif (932.7 KiB)

conveyor-gets-a-drawsurrogate-object.fsm (36.6 KiB)

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Sunil B2 commented · Aug 13 2021 at 7:46 PM

how was it done? Did you import a PNG file and superimposed the conveyor and then made a group together.

my ask is how do I superimpose conveyor on a cad drawing using it as a layout template

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Joerg Vogel Sunil B2 commented · Aug 13 2021 at 9:36 PM

As I wrote. I have added an object inside the conveyor tree. The conveyor is then a container for an object. It is similar to the container functionality of a pallet for an item. But now it is a combination of two objects. The conveyor is missing a fixed resource ability to exchange a shape. By inserting a fixed resource object in the attributes tree, the node acts as a container, I can exchange the shape of the Basic Fixed Resource. You can achieve a similar behavior by inserting an item in the attribute tree, but you have to set a flag to prevent destroying the item on reset. Any item or fixed resource has got the ability to get a different shape.

i depend still on the conveyor module Layout, but I can change the visual look of the conveyor. Probably you have some experience from a different discrete simulation tool, where you import a shape and then you implement a conveyor behavior. In FlexSim you go the other way around. You built conveyor system by default module objects and then you replace the shape.
if you want to import a sketch as a background to build a model then this nothing to do first with a conveyor module. A Background is an own tool in the toolbox.
https://docs.flexsim.com/en/21.2/Using3DObjects/ImportingCAD/

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Sunil B2 Joerg Vogel commented · Aug 14 2021 at 12:56 PM

Started with the background tool but got stuck . When I draw the conveyor it is hidden below the CAD layer. This does not help as conveyors are not visible.

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