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

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anon-user asked Jul 25, '23 Felix Möhlmann commented Aug 1, '23

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.

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.3

massflowconveyor

Answer 1 · 2023-07-25T07:21:53Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Jul 25, '23 Felix Möhlmann commented Aug 1, '23

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)

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

massflow-lane-gaps-fm.fsm

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anon-user commented · Jul 27, 2023 at 04:52 AM

Hi @Felix Möhlmann

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

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Felix Möhlmann anon-user commented · Jul 27, 2023 at 06:00 AM

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.

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 Felix Möhlmann commented · Jul 27, 2023 at 06:23 AM

Object X = Model.find("Shape2");
offsetx(X).value = 0.75;
offsetsx(X).value = 0.2;
rebindobjectattributes(X);

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