Control points detached from AGV paths after reset

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Yao H2 asked May 26, '22 Jason Lightfoot commented May 26, '22

Control points detached from AGV paths after reset

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to programmatically create some agv paths for a rack system but run into some challenges: I did call "finalizeSpatialChanges" for each of my control points created in the scripts. and they showed up to be attached to the agv paths after running the scripts.

But after I reset the model, the control points will no longer be attached on the agv paths.

Any ideas about what is missing? Thank you very much for the help. Here is a demo model: RackDemo_customCodes.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.1.2

agv agvpath control points

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Answer 1 · 2022-05-26T12:29:04Z

Jason Lightfoot answered May 26, '22 Jason Lightfoot commented May 26, '22

If you right click on the nework and choose refresh path links it seems to prevent them from detaching.

However there's a bigger question around why you need this netwrok - maybe there's a better way to model access to the bay/levels/slots in the rack. If you describe what you're trying to do we may have a better suggestion.

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Yao H2 commented · May 26, 2022 at 04:02 PM

Thank you very much Jason, gave it a try just now and it worked.

It is a new material handling concept where the shuttles "enter" the racks to access the the bays/levels with the assist of elevators (for higher levels), which means each rack can be a module and multiple modules can share the same fleet of shuttles. That's also why I'm creating paths with scripts for scaling purposes.

I think it's closer to the AGVs but please let me know if you have a better idea.

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Yao H2 commented · May 26, 2022 at 04:10 PM

Ah I think we already gave you some feedback on that - Phil said to use an elevator and an ASRS with new shapes.

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