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Multiple objects in the same ProcessFlow instance

I've recently discovered object flows/custom objects, and I'm wondering if there is a way to capture two objects in the same object flow instance.

I am in the pre-development phase of modeling a system in which there are multiple groups of objects "pairs" that depend on each other. As an example, I have 10 unit operations. Each unit operation has 2 processors. There are three different states that each processor can be in, but the state of processor #1 has an influence on the state of its coupled processor (#2).

Ideally, I would have an object flow capable of managing 2 simultaneous items/batches within the same "unit operation" or "instance" but be able to distinguish between the two coupled processes.

My intention is something along the lines of current[1] being one processor and current[2] being another processor, although I doubt an object flow can be attached to an array (but that is the general idea of what I am thinking).

I know there is a solution using general ProcessFlow, but an object flow would probably be more dynamic if that's something that can be done.

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You might want to consider making a container the instance of the unit and the instanced member of an object based flow, and have labels on it for each of the two processors it contains. Then you can address them in the flow as current.processor1 and current.processor2. Or you could make one of the processors the "lead" object which is instanced in the process flow, and then reference the counterpart by a label or connection in the usual way.

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I like the container approach - I didn't even know about containers in 3D until now. Thank you.
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