How to change the travel speed of forklift when empty VS loaded?

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chao.g asked Aug 30, '16 Adrian Haws edited Dec 28, '16

How to change the travel speed of forklift when empty VS loaded?

Forklift travels 4 ft/s loaded, 8 ft/s empty, to have different speed, I am doing two triggers on load, on unload with the code, setvarnum(current, "maxspeed", empty speed/loaded speed); is this the right way to accomplish the objective here or there are better ways to do this?

Thanks,

Chao

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FlexSim 16.1.2

forklift travel setvarnum

Answer 1 · 2016-08-30T18:00:18Z

Sam Stubbs answered Aug 30, '16 Sam Stubbs commented Aug 30, '16

Yes this is the best way to accomplish this. You just use the commands getvarnum() and setvarnum() to reference the value of an object's variables. Transporters have a variable called "maxspeed" as well as "acceleration" that can be changed.

So in the transporter under the OnLoad and OnUnload triggers, you can set the transporters speed by calling the setvarnum() command. It would look something like this.

setvarnum(current,"maxspeed",1);

And then in the OnUnload trigger you can call the same command to reset the maxspeed.

As a side note, you might also want a code in the OnReset trigger to set the maxspeed back to it's default, as it won't update on it's own when you reset the model.

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chao.g commented · Aug 30, 2016 at 06:14 PM

that's what I am doing right now, just want to confirm if this is the way you guys will do. thanks.

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Sam Stubbs ♦ chao.g commented · Aug 30, 2016 at 06:23 PM

Great! Yeah you're doing it the way we would. I just posted this answer in case any other users have the same question, it'll be easy to reference in the future.

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