how to make 2 flowitems or more move on conveyor

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Abdallh Omar asked Oct 6, '18 tannerp edited Oct 22, '18

how to make 2 flowitems or more move on conveyor

Hello

How to make two or more flowitems move on a conveyor like in the photo attached

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FlexSim 18.1.1

conveyor flowitems

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Answer 1 · 2018-10-06T19:41:14Z

Joerg Vogel answered Oct 6, '18 tannerp edited Oct 10, '18

You need a photoeye to translate the position of items. A condition that gets regulary true lets a item to translate to another position. A modulus operator depending on the content of the conveyor does this.

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tannerp commented · Oct 10, 2018 at 05:56 PM

@Jörg Vogel's idea of translating the items works well visually.

The following is helpful in understanding how the logic works behind this. It's important to remember that one item is still in front of the other in this case. As shown below, the first object to enter the conveyor is the one that exits first. They do not exit simultaneously.

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