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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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?
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.
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...
@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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