Transporter Wheels Size

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Shinya O asked Oct 4, '23 Shinya O commented Oct 5, '23

Transporter Wheels Size

Hi,

Changing a transporter size, the aspect ratio of the wheel will change. Since an oval wheel spinning is not a good animation, I would like to make the wheel shape circular. I solved it by changing the size in OnPreDraw trigger, but is there a better way? Can I do the same thing without using OnPreDraw or OnDraw triggers?

I attached my model.TransporterWheelsSize.fsm

Thanks in advance.

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.0.11

transporter wheels

transporterwheelssize.fsm (29.2 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2023-10-04T13:50:07Z

Phil BoBo answered Oct 4, '23 Shinya O commented Oct 5, '23

You could adjust which axis of the main object the wheels scale with:

By default, X scales with X, Y with Y, and Z with Z.

If you change X and Z to both scale with Z, then they'll remain circular because they will both scale with a single dimension instead of separate dimensions.

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Shinya O commented · Oct 05, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Thank you for your information. Even when Do Animation is checked, it works fine.

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Answer 2 · 2023-10-04T09:03:40Z

Iago MF answered Oct 4, '23 Phil BoBo converted comment to answer Oct 4, '23

An animation is being applied to wheels when the transporter is travelling, so if you resize the wheels, each frame for that animation should be changed to the new size. The simpliest work around is uncheck Do Animations. The wheels won't spin, but it's not really relevant.

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Shinya O commented · Oct 04, 2023 at 09:10 AM

Thank you for your information. Unchecking Do Animation is a good work around.

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