Direction of flow item after exitting the conveyor

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Hoang Nk asked Feb 23, '24 Jeanette F commented Feb 29, '24

Direction of flow item after exitting the conveyor

Hello folks,

I'm having a bit of a problem with the direction of a flow item after it exits the conveyor

As from the above picture, the supposed direction of the cylinders should be lying horizontally. But somehow if the crane picks them out from the conveyor and place it to the queue, their direction changed to vertical, like some of the cylinders in the picture. And explicitly from the toolbox I have set the direction for the cylinder to be horizontal:

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Much appreciate :)

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.2.1

conveyor flowitem crane

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Feb 29 at 06:16 PM

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Answer 1 · 2024-02-23T11:30:14Z

Paula LG answered Feb 23, '24 Jason Lightfoot commented Feb 26, '24

Hi Hoang,

You can add an "On Entry" trigger to your queues that sets the rotation of the object to the one you want.

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Felix Möhlmann commented · Feb 23 at 11:44 AM

You can also use the Shape Factors to control how the 3D shape is oriented while the object has a rotation of (0, 0, 0).

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Hoang Nk Felix Möhlmann commented · Feb 23 at 12:20 PM

Thank you, I'll try to see if it can prevent the rotation after conveyor

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Hoang Nk commented · Feb 23 at 12:19 PM

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion but if I do so, then it will also rotate the cylinders being moved in from other places, of which directions are correct

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Paula LG Hoang Nk commented · Feb 26 at 11:43 AM

The entry trigger will only rotate the cylinders that are not correctly placed when entering a queue, since the rest of them will already be at the chosen rotation values!

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ Paula LG commented · Feb 26 at 01:21 PM

You're setting the rotation to the same number, not incrementing it by that number for each entry.

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