How do I change flow item orientation on a conveyor?

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Brad Champeau asked Feb 9, '17 Mischa Spelt commented Oct 18, '17

How do I change flow item orientation on a conveyor?

I have a rectangular package passing from a belt conveyor to two belt conveyors side by side. One of the side by side conveyors runs faster than the other. This rotates the package 90 degrees. How do I make the package change orientation upon exiting the two belt conveyor?

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FlexSim 17.0.2

conveyor movement rotate flow item orientation

Answer 1 · 2017-02-09T05:45:11Z

Joerg Vogel answered Feb 9, '17 Mischa Spelt commented Oct 18, '17

You inserts on the conveyor a Photo Eye or a Decision Point. Then you open the Object's Properties through the right mouse button context menu, a double click of the left mouse button or the three dot button next to Object's Type (e.g. Photo Eye Type) in the Quick Properties on the right side of the workspace. The triggers have got the picklist option you are searching. Activate the green plus symbol on the right of the trigger, choose in the order Movement > Rotate Item.

You need decide if you want to see the movement over a time interval or a length distance. Or if want to get the effect instantly the distance or time is set to 0.

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Brad Champeau commented · Mar 28, 2017 at 08:03 PM

@Jörg Vogel Thanks that has worked for me. Now my model is progressing to where I want to rotate only item type 1, but not item type 2. How do I make that work?

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Mischa Spelt Brad Champeau commented · Oct 18, 2017 at 02:53 PM

Brad, the Rotate Item properties has a "Condition" field which determines under what condition the action is executed:

true means the action is always executed. You can replace this with a comparison, such as

item.Type == 1

(Note that the comparison operator is a double equals symbol!)

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