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Steven Chen asked Phil BoBo commented

cpallocate?

Hello,

Could you explain what this command does, and when may be used?

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tannerp avatar image tannerp commented ·

@steven.chen,

This might help:

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Steven Chen avatar image Steven Chen tannerp commented ·

Is there a specific purpose to use the command?

Perhaps using the command to pre-allocate control point to occupy path as high priority agv? But I don't know what to do next to make agv travel to the control point.

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tannerp avatar image tannerp Steven Chen commented ·

@steven.chen

I've never personally needed to use this function, but as you probably know, control points can be allocated to AGVs for a number of purposes:

  • A point where AGVs pick up and/or drop off flow items.
  • A stopping point on the network where AGVs wait to enter an area or section of a path.
  • A decision point on the network where the AGV looks for work to do.
  • A decision point on the network where an AGV is dispatched to some other point on the network, dependent on network state/availability.

Maybe @jordan.johnson or @phil.bobo would have more to add.

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Phil BoBo answered Phil BoBo commented

FlexSim is flexible. The cpalloc() command is available in case someone wanted to use it to develop custom logic for allocating control points instead of using the built-in options and features.

If you don't understand why you would want to dynamically allocate a control point with a command, then you should probably not be using that command.

I would suggest using Control Areas and the AGV Process Flow template instead.

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Steven Chen avatar image Steven Chen commented ·

Thanks for your answer.

So in the other hand, can the built-in allocation be disabled and use only cpallocate() by myself?

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Phil BoBo avatar image Phil BoBo ♦♦ Steven Chen commented ·

No.

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