create groups of people to sit at tables together

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Raynan asked Jun 20 2023 at 7:22 PM Natalie White commented Jun 26 2023 at 8:31 PM

create groups of people to sit at tables together

I'm trying to create a simulated model of a self-service restaurant, and the proposal is that, when running the model and creating people, they come in groups, serve themselves and the whole group occupies a table (and different groups sit at different tables). I don't want unknown people to sit at the same table, for a better approximation of reality. I tried to make my model with "assigning label" but I don't have enough knowledge to handle the software. Can anyone help me?

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FlexSim 22.2.0

label groups restaurant

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Natalie White commented · Jun 20 2023 at 7:33 PM

Hi @Raynan,

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Raynan Natalie White commented · Jun 20 2023 at 11:17 PM

actually I just wanted to understand what the theory of this would look like, so I could apply it to my research. I already tried applying labels and it didn't work as I thought it should, so I asked for help.

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Natalie White commented · Jun 26 2023 at 8:31 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-06-20T23:22:09Z

Julie Weller answered Jun 20 2023 at 11:22 PM

Hi @Raynan! I would look at this question:

https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/143393/move-in-units-of-more-than-a-few-people-in-healthc.html

It applies to healthcare primarily but you can use multi-location objects in regular flexsim and even rearrange them to look more like a restaurant setting, like Jeanette implemented.

Does that help answer your question?

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Raynan commented · Jun 21 2023 at 4:02 AM

Hi Julie, very thank you for your assist! I took a look at the post you linked, it made a lot of sense what I saw, but for some reason the bug on the "Acquire As single Unit" button persisted, even though I corrected line 13 in the code. I'm using flexsim 2022 update 2. Anyway, I'll attach my model in case it's useful. Thank you again.

Simulação restaurante.fsm

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simulacao-restaurante.fsm (17.3 MiB)

Julie Weller Raynan commented · Jun 21 2023 at 1:57 PM

Hmmm I had the same issue when I built it... @Jeanette F Can you take a look at this? Neither of us could fix the error from the bug...

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Julie Weller commented · Jun 21 2023 at 4:48 PM

@Julie Weller @Jeanette F @Raynan

As a workaround you could open a Script Console and run code like this to set that setting:

Object chairs = Model.find("Chairs1");
setvarnum(chairs, "acquireAsSingleUnit", 1);

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