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Felipe T asked Joerg Vogel answered

Importing DWG files as barriers and dividers

Hello.

I would like to know if it is possible to convert drawning backgrounds (DWG or DXF) into barriers and/or dividers.

Thank you.

FlexSim 17.2.5
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Sam Stubbs answered

Unfortunately there's not really a way to do this automatically. It would very difficult to have FlexSim parse through the dwg file and determine which lines/objects were supposed to be barriers or not. However, you can get the "snap points" of a dwg, and use those as the basis for drawing your barriers. You'd still have to do this either manually or write your own script that would loop through these points though.

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Joerg Vogel answered

My humble opinion is, that you do this as a post processing in the MCAD program. There you create a table that contains the dimensions and locations of the barriers. Then you adapt this table data as a txt data file or csv data file in Flexsim to create the barriers. It is a basic duty of the documenting a draft or a drawing. I don't think it is necessary to let Flexsim do pre-processing tasks that is based on intentions of users.

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