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Forklift driver and operator a the same time

I know it might sounds silly. One of the factories that I'm trying to model doesn't have a driver for the forklift. Usually, the operator goes to pick the forklift from parking lot and bring it to his machine to carry the finished product and then back to his machine. The machine time is about 4hrs and that excuse the management to nothire a dedicated forklift driver. The foundry site is affiliated to my school. Is their anyway to make it through FlexSim? I know we can have like Relay race, where the task executor (Operator) stops while the transporter travel, then again the transporter stops while the operator is performing a machine related process, but I want to animate it, if it's possible.

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A relatively simple way to visually enhance the process a little bit would be to hide the operator or forklift driver, depending on which task executer is currently active, like I have done in the attached model. (The command "switch_hideshape()" and the reference to the forklift driver object can be seen in the custom code activities marked orange.

SwitchHideOperator.fsm

If you think it's worth the effort you can of course also create animations to show the operator enter/exit the forklift in the animation editor. To do this I would add a forklift to the window to use as reference for the bone animation. Then later make sure to position the operator in the same spot it starts in in the animation relative to the forklift.

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thank you so much

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