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How to make the conveyor increase its height like an incline conveyor ?

In my model as the truck is loaded I want conveyor to increase its height at the end of the conveyor. Please let me know how to carry on the above simulation. I have attached the model.

Thank You.rack-model.fsm

FlexSim 19.1.0
height of the belt drive
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@Vineeth N

Unfortunately there is not a way to raise and lower just one side of the conveyor. Because the Kinematics that are programmed into how the conveyor system works coincide with the length of the conveyor. And the length cannot be changed during run-time without messing up the kinematics. You can however change the height of the entire conveyor system. Attached is an example model.

rise-and-fall-telescoping-conveyor.fsm


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If you REALLY want that visual, you could place two conveyors (one flat and one inclined) at the same location, and when feasible, visually hide the flat one, "unhide" the inclined one, and have logic to send objects to the inclined one instead of the flat one when the truck is there, and then reverse when the truck leaves.

Alternatively, you could also use:

Model.find("Conveyor2").as(Object).rotation.y = -45;

This will keep the conveyor attached to its previous section, but WILL, in fact, incline one end. I've tested it and it works.

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