Composite state chart flickers between sets

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Tom S4 asked Feb 15, '22 Jeanette F commented Jul 27, '22

Composite state chart flickers between sets

I have composite state chart referencing a group of objects, each using the same custom state profile. When I run the model, it constantly flickers between showing one and two sets of states.

I have tried referencing the group of objects, referencing each object individually, and trying with both the composite pie charts and composite state bars. I feel like it may have something to do with the custom states, but I haven't seen much to suggest that. Any suggestions on how to start debugging this issue?

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FlexSim 21.1.5

custom state profile composite state

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Tom S4 commented · Feb 15, 2022 at 11:34 PM

Here is an isolated portion of my model as an example. For some reason, now the issue is only occuring when referencing a group (see the composite bar chart, #2) and not for individual objects (composite pie chart, #1). Can't seem to figure out the issue.

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Ryan Clark commented · Feb 21, 2022 at 07:43 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-02-16T02:17:14Z

Tom S4 answered Feb 16, '22 Lambert commented Jul 27, '22

After more experimenting, it seems the issue happened with my custom state "Mixing" having the same name as the built-in state. I've changed my custom state to "mix" instead and the issue is solved. I'm not sure if anyone wants to look into this further, but for the purposes of what I'm doing this isn't a problem anymore.

Answer 2 · 2022-07-27T11:05:19Z

Lambert answered Jul 27, '22 Jeanette F commented Jul 27, '22

Hi,

I have the same flickering issue when assigning the same display name to two states.

It also gets fixed when I change the names and use different ones.

However, is there a way to make two states fall under the same bucket?

In other words, I don't want to have "Travel Empty" and "Travel Offset Empty" showing in the pie chart as two different states (they are the same thing).

Can anyone help?

Thank you

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Jul 27, 2022 at 12:52 PM

It would be best to create a new question and reference this post in the new question.

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Answer 3 · 2022-02-15T23:49:16Z

Jeanette F answered Feb 15, '22 Jason Lightfoot edited Feb 16, '22

Hello @Tom S4,

When I select the chart and delete the selected group and then reselect the group the flickering goes away.

Does this work for you?

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Tom S4 commented · Feb 16, 2022 at 01:39 AM

I tried this with both the original model and with the simplified copy of my model. For the copy that I've attached to this question, your suggestion did work for me. For some reason, the same change did not work for my original model. I can't share that model for confidentiality reasons. Maybe we can determine the root cause that can then be used to fix the original model.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Tom S4 commented · Feb 16, 2022 at 01:37 PM

Tom you can change this post to private and then only FlexSim support will see any model you upload, if that helps. Update: I see Tom found the issue.

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