How to connect parallel or perpendicular conveyors?

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Shoog N asked Jul 18, '23 Natalie White commented Jul 21, '23

How to connect parallel or perpendicular conveyors?

I am facing a problem when connecting two conveyor segments with each other, one is perpendicular to the other. Or in case I have an angle between them. The side wall or the skirt does not disappear. I attached two snipping shots for illustration! FL1.JPG

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FlexSim 22.2.0

connections conveying sideskirt conveyor rise

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Carter Walch commented · Jul 18, 2023 at 05:00 PM

Hi @Shoog N,

It's hard to know how to help without looking at your model. To receive a more accurate solution, please post your model or a sample model that demonstrates your question.

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Also, have you tried using both the Join Conveyors tool and manually connecting the conveyors like this?

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Shoog N commented · Jul 18, 2023 at 05:25 PM

I do it like this, but it does not work for some reason. I attached a small part of the model in this reply. Can you please check it and let me know! ThanksTesting Example.fsm

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Natalie White commented · Jul 21, 2023 at 07:15 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-07-18T23:28:44Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jul 18, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited Jul 18, '23

You probably need to make sure the 'rise' variable is zero on the connecting conveyors.

You can try running this script which will set the value to zero for all conveyors where the rise is less that the riseThreshold local variable:

Array convs=Table.query("SELECT ARRAY_AGG(Object) FROM Objects() WHERE 'Conveyor::Conveyor' IN Classes")[1][1];
double riseThreshold=0.1; //  change this to a value that retains your conveyors with gradient
Object conv=NULL;
while (convs.length){
    conv=convs.pop();
    if (Math.fabs(getvarnum(conv,"rise"))<riseThreshold)
        setvarnum(conv,"rise",0);
}

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