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Patrick Cloutier asked Matthew Gillespie commented

Transporter load no longer in correct position

As you can see in this picture, the Transporter doesn't place the load properly on the forks. This is because my model is in feets instead of the default meters. Is there any way I can easily fix this?


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FlexSim 23.0.3
transporter problem
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Patrick Cloutier avatar image Patrick Cloutier commented ·

It does the same thing in any blank model in feet:

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Matthew Gillespie avatar image Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented ·
@Patrick Cloutier This bug has been fixed for 23.0.4 that will come out later this week.
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Jason Lightfoot answered Patrick Cloutier commented

I think Phil posted a workaround in this answer

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Patrick Cloutier avatar image Patrick Cloutier commented ·

I tried the script he posted and it doesn't change anything unless I didn't place the script at the right place.

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Jason Lightfoot avatar image Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ Patrick Cloutier commented ·

Yes you're right.

TransporterLoad_Feet.fsm

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Phil BoBo avatar image Phil BoBo ♦♦ Patrick Cloutier commented ·

That script only updates transporters that went through the model-update process.

New transporters in non-meter model units is a different bug, which we have just now fixed for the next 23.0 bugfix release later this week.

You can fix this issue in your model right now with the same script, removing the if() statement on line 5 (that limits the scope to updated transporters) so that it appropriately positions the drawsurrogate component of each transporter based on its parent node instead of using hard-coded values that are in meters.

Also, you would have gotten a more accurate answer faster if you had posted your sample model itself instead of just screenshots of your example model. Then Jason could have tested the script himself and found a solution rather than quickly posting a link to a possibly-related question based on the scant information you provided.

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