Referencing the Conveyor a Decision Point is on from Process Flow

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Eamon O asked Apr 7, '23 Eamon O commented Apr 10, '23

Referencing the Conveyor a Decision Point is on from Process Flow

I want to reference the conveyor a DP is placed on from its object process flow. i.e. 'wait for event' current.myConveyor: onExit.

In the past I've solved this by referencing current.centerObjects[1] and just center connecting each DP to its conveyor. This doesn't scale well though since I have to do that manually for each one.

Thanks in advance. See below for the closest I've managed to get so far.

Did some looking into the treenode, and I can access conveyorPoint variable which sees the conveyor the DP is on.

However, when I set a debug label to that value, I don't get something very useful, and can't figure out how to climb back up that path to the StraightConveyor7.

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FlexSim 22.2.4

conveyors decision points variable referencing

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Answer 1 · 2023-04-08T01:10:15Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Apr 8, '23 Eamon O commented Apr 10, '23

You use ownerobject() on that value to get to the conveyor.

But the wait for event activity has a conveyor field to allow you to set a token label with that value directly.

If you're using an object flow where the decision point is 'current', the conveyor is simply:

current.as(Conveyor.DecisionPoint).conveyor

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Eamon O commented · Apr 10, 2023 at 07:56 PM

Perfect! The code line is exactly what I'm looking for. I'll probably extrapolate this in the future too. Thanks Jason :)

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