Display Simulation Time as Text or bill board in 3D space

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Karthikeyan B asked Jun 5, '19 Karthikeyan B commented Jun 6, '19

Display Simulation Time as Text or bill board in 3D space

Hello

I was wondering if there is a way to just get the real runtime clock to display as a text in the 3D model for easy viewing.

I am trying to add the simualtion timer next to some 3D objects to see how it reacts based on time.

I was able to customize the clock as shown in the picture but it counts in minutes and seconds.

I have seen this example shown below in the Q and A forum but was not able to use that in the code.

Can some one show me an example ?

getmodelunit(CURRENT_TIME) //Returns FS_DATETIME
time() //Returns model time
convert(time(), MODEL_TIME, DATETIME_STR) //Will print out date time based upon the date/time format string, for example 8:00:00 AM Fri 24 Jun 2016

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.1.0

display time in 3d objects

time.png (98.2 KiB)

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Jun 05, 2019 at 09:52 PM

What format do you want it to display in? Did you try the Use Default Format option?

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Karthikeyan B Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Jun 06, 2019 at 02:18 PM

Hello Matt , I am trying to display it in seconds.

2400000.00 seconds ~ 66 Hrs

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Answer 1 · 2019-06-06T16:34:11Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Jun 6, '19 Karthikeyan B commented Jun 6, '19

In the Text object's Display Text field put this line of code:

textnode.value = string.fromNum(getmodelunit(CURRENT_SECOND), 2);

Or if you just want it to display in whatever units the model is using you could do

textnode.value = string.fromNum(Model.time, 2);

See this example model.

timedisplay.fsm

timedisplay.fsm (102.6 KiB)

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Karthikeyan B commented · Jun 06, 2019 at 09:02 PM

Brilliant , Thank you @Matthew Gillespie

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