Material cut out with separator

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Marie Lisa asked Jul 10, '17 Logan Gold answered Aug 9, '18

Material cut out with separator

Hello guys,

In the attached model you can see that our combiner combines XX material strings on a invincible pallet.
From there it gets to the separator where it should be shortened on a defined length from the global tables.
And thats what it also does, everything works just at the end it exports not only the shortened material also the other strings from the begining. In the attached png file you can see what I mean. The red framing is what I need and whats good.

The blue framing is what I do not need.

Can anyone please help?

Thank you in advance.

trennschleifmaschine.fsm
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Software Version:

FlexSim 17.1.2

separator items shorten

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Answer 1 · 2017-07-11T21:08:28Z

Logan Gold answered Jul 11, '17

@Marie Lisa

I think you will need to explain how your model is working and what you are wanting to happen a little more before we can help completely answer your question.

Your description mentions the Combiner should combine material strings with an invisible pallet, and it looks like in the model you are using resized Cylinder flowitems for the material strings. It also mentions that the Separator should shorten something by a defined length from the Global Tables, but what should be shortened? The Cylinders or the Pallet?

What ends up happening is the Pallet gets resized in the Separator's OnExit trigger and the Cylinders are left unchanged. When a Pallet gets resized, that causes it to become visible again. If that is not what you want, what should be happening here instead?

Also, in the Separator's OnProcessFinish trigger, you are referencing a Global Table with the name "Schleif/Trennscheibe Rechteckstahl", but there is no table with that name. So that is throwing some FlexScript exceptions when a Pallet finishes processing.

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