Side skirt position wrong in descending curved belt conveyor

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Claire Krupp asked Jun 6, '22 Claire Krupp commented Jun 10, '22

Side skirt position wrong in descending curved belt conveyor

I have been testing out some visual displays of conveyors to get something that looks like a curved chute or slide.

When I use a descending curved roller conveyor, the side skirts move down with the conveyor as expected, but if I change the visualization to a belt conveyor, the side-skirts lift up about twice as high as the rest of the conveyor!

CK_conveyors_testbed.fsm

Any idea how I can fix this problem? I prefer the look of the belt to represent a metal chute, but I can't use it like this.

Thanks.

Software Version:

FlexSim 22.1.2

conveyor skirt

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ck-conveyors-testbed.fsm (37.7 KiB)

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Jonah K ♦ commented · Jun 10, 2022 at 02:56 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-06-07T07:05:18Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Jun 7, '22 Claire Krupp commented Jun 10, '22

It looks like this is a bug with the texture option of the side skirts, rather than the belt/rollers. When I deactivate the skirt texture option, they move to the correct location.

(The offset of the skirts is equal to the difference between the start and end height of the conveyor and the problem only occurs if the conveyor is moving downward. So it seems FlexSim is using the height of the wrong endpoint when drawing the skirt with the option active.)

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Claire Krupp commented · Jun 10, 2022 at 03:44 PM

That fixed it! Thank you. @Felix Möhlmann

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