Any way to keep the same AGV orientation?

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Patrick Cloutier asked Apr 10, '20 Jason Lightfoot commented Jul 14, '23

Any way to keep the same AGV orientation?

I need to keep AGVs pointing in the same direction for their entire life no matter in which X or Y direction they travel.

I have seen in many older posts that there is no way to control AGV orientation on AGV paths. It's all controlled by AGV logic and there is nothing we can do about it.

Is it still the case ?

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.0

flexsim 20.1.0 agv orientation

Answer 1 · 2020-04-13T18:25:23Z

Phil BoBo answered Apr 13, '20 Jason Lightfoot commented Jul 14, '23

Do you mean that you want the agvs to appear to not rotate at all?

Like this?

agv_no_rotation_1.fsm

I disabled the main object's 3D shape and Show Contents flag. Then I added a component using the animator and set its shape to the AGV shape. Then I added a subcomponent of that component that draws the main object's content.

Then I added an On Pre Draw trigger that calls updatelocations(current) and then sets the rotation Z of the subcomponent to the -Z rotation of the main object.

That way, it appears to always be still, even though the main object is rotating. Because the drawn object sets its rotation to the opposite.

agv-orientation.gif (637.7 KiB)

agv-no-rotation-1.fsm (42.3 KiB)

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Jul 14, 2023 at 11:17 AM

In version 23 you can just uncheck the rotate checkbox on the task executer properties:

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