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Item packing In racks

Hi Support,

In my model I need to create a packing method, In which one source is giving racks and other source is giving boxes. So, the item exiting the combiner should look like the image attached belowpack-item.png

Packing In rack model.fsm

FlexSim 23.0.2
packing method
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Ok, you can do this, but your model will consume a lot system memory only if you want to place items in a rack shape. I suggest to use a custom rack shape for a pallet and change a stacking algorithm. You find attached a link to a basic rack shape.

https://answers.flexsim.com/comments/72521/view.html

If you want to create racks dynamically, then you can do this by same named static method of object class. But such objects aren't made for a combiner object being packed.

Object.create("Rack") 

I will not show you, how you can put an 3D object into a simple flow item to get a combination of item and rack to get used in a combiner, because you need to establish at the item some code to move items into a subnode rack. Perhaps you can write a bit more about the functionality the rack must fulfill in your model.

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Also note that you may not be able to virtualize items in a rack that moves and have them display in the correct locations.

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