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Locations in FlexSim are stored in a rather unintuitive way. An object's location is stored in the tree as the position of the top left corner before any rotations are applied. This is what the bottom bar is displaying and what you get if you say

return obj.location;

In your code snippet you are using the getLocation() method which lets you specify a point on the object to use as the reference point for the location as described in Changing the Location Point of Reference. The properties window does this and sets the point to (0.5, 0.5, 0) so that it always shows the location of the center-bottom of the object. In your code you're getting the location from (0,0,0) or the top left corner after rotation. So you're seeing three different numbers:

return obj.location; //Position of top left corner before rotation (status bar)
return obj.getLocation(0,0,0); //Position of top left corner after rotation (your code)
return obj.getLocation(0.5,0.5,0); //Position of center (Properties panel)