Problem with moveobject() command

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Hoang Nk asked Oct 2, '23 Hoang Nk commented Oct 3, '23

Problem with moveobject() command

Hi folks,

I'm having a bit of a problem when using the moveobject() command to move a flow item onto a queue. I have a list of flow items and would like to place them into their respective locations (queues). However, when I use the moveobject() command, the item is not placed onto the surface of its corresponding queue but it looks like the following photo

And it even looks weirder when I tried to move the item to the queues on the upper level, the item will have a large offset with the queue surface, like in this photo

Is there any way I can fix this? Thanks a lot for your help.

Here's the code I used to make this:

Table Init = Table("coil_file"); //list of items need to be generated
int nrow = Init.numRows;
treenode coil = Model.find("/Tools/FlowItemBin/Cylinder/1");
for (int index = 1; index <= nrow; index++)
{
    string location = Init[index]["location"]; //location where the item is placed
    string coil_num = Init[index]["coil_number"];
    int width = Init[index]["width"]; //dimension of the item from the list
    int diameter = Init[index]["diameter"];
    Object newitem = coil.copy(model(), 0);
    newitem.labels.assert("Coil_number").value = coil_num;
    newitem.setSize(diameter/1000,diameter/1000,width/1000); //set item's dimensions
    Object dest = Model.find(location);
    moveobject(newitem, dest);
}

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.1.3

visualization moveobject

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Answer 1 · 2023-10-02T08:47:18Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Oct 2, '23 Hoang Nk commented Oct 3, '23

The default placement logic of a queue will

- not take into account the rotation of the item
- place the item outside its area, if it doesn't fit into the queue (with some padding space and again without taking rotation into account)

For both cases, the solution is to deactivate the queue's stacking behaviour and instead adjust the location to what it should be in the On Entry trigger with object.setLocation().

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Hoang Nk commented · Oct 02, 2023 at 09:05 AM

hi, I set the On Entry trigger in the queue as you said but it placed the item further out, is this correct?

Object current = ownerobject(c);
Object item = param(1);
int port = param(2);
Vec3 location = current.getLocation(0.5,0.5,0);
item.setLocation(location.x,location.y,location.z,0.5,0.5,0);

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Hoang Nk commented · Oct 02, 2023 at 10:21 AM

The location is relative to the object's own coordinates, so the centre position of any object is:

Vec3 selfCentre=current.size/2;

You can then to choose alter z to be 0 (stack inside) or leave it (stack in middle) or do something else.

then use

Vec3 itemFactors=Vec3(0.5,0.5,0);
item.setlocation(selfCentre,itemFactors);

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Felix Möhlmann Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Oct 02, 2023 at 10:44 AM

And the itemFactors vector is going to differ if the object is rotated around the x- or y-axis. (values below if rotated around one axis only)

Vec3 itemFactors = Vec3(0.5, 1, 0.5)   // xRot = 90;
Vec3 itemFactors = Vec3(0.5, 0, 0.5)   // xRot = -90;
Vec3 itemFactors = Vec3(1, 0.5, 0.5)   // yRot = 90;
Vec3 itemFactors = Vec3(0, 0.5, 0.5)   // yRot = -90;

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