How to programatically create content in a specific Bay of a Rack

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martin.j asked Jul 04 2017 at 2:26 PM Joerg Vogel commented Jul 05 2017 at 5:27 AM

How to programatically create content in a specific Bay of a Rack

Is there a way to programatically create an object in a Rack, either with 'createcopy' / 'createinstance' or with Process Flow 'createobject' activity, and then place it in a bay of my choice?

It seems I can add objects into the rack easily enough, but they are not placed in any bay, they just lie at the foot of the rack. How can I update the racks content table with the item and have it drawn in the correct location?

Basically I am trying to get around using the Place_In_Bay and Place_In_Level triggers for my initial content that the rack should hold on model startup.

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.1.2

racks place in bay creating flow items

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Answer 1 · 2017-07-04T15:08:31Z

Steven Hamoen answered Jul 04 2017 at 3:08 PM Joerg Vogel commented Jul 05 2017 at 5:27 AM

@martin.jensen why don't you use a source creating a fixed amount of product with interarrival time 0 and set labels on the items exiting the source. In the "Place in..." triggers you could easily determine whether items coming in are startup (time()<1) or normal running and have different code if needed.

If you really want to know take a look in the library object at the assertCellAssignment() function to know how flexsim does it internally and you can copy that functionality.

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