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Placement of flow-items in queue

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I want to replicate the conveyor behaviour on the left hand side in the Queue on righthand side..Basically i want the queue to create 3 rows of items based on its itemtype...Row1 should contain Type1..Row2 contains Type2 etc...

Can someone help me acheiving that...

Thanks in advance!!

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@Suhas H2

This is very easy if you create three separate queues and make them thin enough so that they can only fill up in a line:

Here's your model with this setup: test234answer.fsm


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Thanks for the reply@Joseph Gillespie

I agree the thing you have shown is easy Sir@Joseph Gillespie.

I have 80 such conveyors which makes the model huge, so i am trying to have 1 queue in place of those conveyors and write a suitable logic to store the items in the same fashion you have shown in the pic..

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Hi @Suhas H2,

I wouldn't be too worried about the size of your model unless you are importing custom 3D objects or using very high numbers of flowitems. Having more queues should not increase the memory size of the model very much.

I wouldn't suggest trying to modify the queue to stack items like three conveyors, it would be very difficult to do. If you still want to reduce the number of items in your model, you could try using a rack instead of queues:

Here's a rack with only one bay for each item:

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Suhas H2 avatar image Suhas H2 Joseph Gillespie commented ·

Thanks alot @Joseph Gillespie ..

Can i get the model for the examples you have shown?

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