Surrogates Not Appearing In The FlowItem For MassFlowConveyor

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Arun Kr asked Mar 31, '23 Jeanette F commented Apr 6, '23

Surrogates Not Appearing In The FlowItem For MassFlowConveyor

When we add surrogates to a flow item and add it as a flow item in the mass flow conveyor the surrogate is not drawn.

Attaching the sample model. Puck_MassFlowConveyor.fsm

Regards,

Arun KR

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FlexSim 23.0.5

massflowconveyor

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puck-massflowconveyor.fsm (45.2 KiB)

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Apr 06, 2023 at 03:48 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-03-31T13:39:33Z

Phil BoBo answered Mar 31, '23 Phil BoBo edited Mar 31, '23

This is by design.

The mass flow conveyor uses OpenGL Instanced Rendering to render all of its flow unit shapes very fast with a single draw call. It doesn't render a whole complex tree structure of objects (as the drawsurrogate components are rendered).

The Mass Flow Conveyor "Shapes" Draw Mode just renders the specified shape from the specified item, not its entire complex visual configuration.

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