Use of different flow units on different mass flow conveyors

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Sara Bonansea asked Mar 15, '22 Matthew Gillespie commented Dec 20, '22

Use of different flow units on different mass flow conveyors

Hi everyone!

I have started using mass flow conveyors in FlexSim 22.0.1. I have a question about the use of different flow units.

My model consists of two sources and each source is connected to a mass flow conveyor. On each conveyor I want to have a different type of flow unit that uses different shapes (Box2 is a green box and Box3 is a blue box).

I am struggling with the fact that only one type of shape seems to be used for both conveyors, even if on the entry transfers I specify different flow units that have to be used.

How can I solve this problem?

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FlexSim 22.1.0

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Answer 1 · 2022-03-15T08:55:15Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Mar 15, '22 Matthew Gillespie commented Dec 20, '22

You can change the shape of the incorrect flow item to a cylinder and then back to a box - this fixed it for me.

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Dec 20, 2022 at 11:48 PM

This bug has been fixed for 22.0.11 and 23.0.1 which come out later this week.

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Sara Bonansea commented · Mar 17, 2022 at 08:15 AM

Thank you for your answer @Jason Lightfoot! Yes, with the cylinder it works also for me, but if I go back to the new flow item that I have created it seems that it does not work.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Sara Bonansea commented · Mar 17, 2022 at 10:09 AM

If you browse to the box.3ds file in FlexSim's fs3d/general folder it should work. I have noted this to the dev team.

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Sara Bonansea Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Mar 18, 2022 at 08:35 AM

Very well, thank you!

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