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!
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.
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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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