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How to create space/gap between the lanes on the Mass flow conveyor

Hello Team,

How can I create gap between the lanes.

Attaches is the model wherein, on the 2nd Mass flow conveyor with the help of width rule I'm creating 6 lanes and want to have space between the each lanes.


Thank you.


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Apart from using separate conveyors for each lane, the best idea I could come up with would be to use a FlowItem whose bounding box is larger than the visible shape as the FlowUnit. (Edit the shape factors to achieve this)

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That way the items will appear as if there was a gap inbetween them.

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Hi @Felix Möhlmann

How to change the shape factor and size of the item using code.

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Shape factors are stored under the spatial attribute node. The nodes that start with offset are the shape factors. (No suffix - translation, "s" - size, "r" - rotation)
Change the nodes' values to change the shape factors.

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You can set the size either the same way through the spatial nodes or, if you cast the Pill Bottle node as an object, by using object.size.x/y/z.

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Arun Kr avatar image Arun Kr Felix Möhlmann commented · 
Object X = Model.find("Shape2");
offsetx(X).value = 0.75;
offsetsx(X).value = 0.2;
rebindobjectattributes(X);
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