Create or move flow item to Photo Eye (custom code)

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Leandro Meirelles asked Jul 26, '24 Leandro Meirelles commented Jul 26, '24

Create or move flow item to Photo Eye (custom code)

Hello,

I need to create or move a flow item to a Photo eye. It supposed to be a easy task, but I tried those 3 commands and neither work:

createinstance(Model.find("Tools/FlowItemBin/Box/Box")), Model.find("PE1"));

createcopy(Model.find("Tools/FlowItemBin/Box/Box")), Model.find("PE1"));

moveobject(Model.find("Source1").first,Model.find("PE1"));

what am i missing? this is the error output by the way:

Error create:

Flexscript Error VIEW:/active/MainPanel/BackPanel/SplitterXPane/SplitterYPane/ToolTabPane/TabControl/ScriptConsole/Script>script Line 9 syntax error

Error move:

time: 10.724000 exception: FlexScript exception: Property "first" accessed on invalid node. at MAIN:/project/exec/consolescript c: <no path> i: <no path>

Could not finish parsing because of previous errors.

the syntax looks right to me, just the "first" property that i didn't know i couldn't use on source, so I did send to a queue and tried the same code from queue to photo eye and didn't work...

Software Version:

FlexSim 24.1.1

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Answer 1 · 2024-07-26T14:47:02Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jul 26, '24 Leandro Meirelles commented Jul 26, '24

You will need an entry transfer by which you can move the item onto the conveyor. If you have one photoeye than you can put that transfer at the correct point along the side of the conveyor.

If you have many photoeyes on the same conveyor then you need to have an extended transfer along the length of the conveyor and set the xlocation of the item to match the phote eye's 'distAlong' property before you move it to the transfer.

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Leandro Meirelles commented · Jul 26 at 03:22 PM

Thanks for the entry transfer information, but it still didn't work:

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Gustavo Teodoro Leandro Meirelles commented · Jul 26 at 05:08 PM

@Leandro Meirelles I made a test here and worked. I have update a screenshot of the command that I used and the model that I tested.

FX_EntryTransferPhotoEye.fsm

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Leandro Meirelles Gustavo Teodoro commented · Jul 26 at 05:37 PM

I am sorry for not pay attention, my Queue name is "Queue2"... Its working, thanks!

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