How can you get random patients to be wearing surgical masks?

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James Rodgers1 asked Jun 1, '20 Matthew Gillespie answered Jun 1, '20

How can you get random patients to be wearing surgical masks?

I was wondering if there's a way to put surgical masks on random patients. The "Change Visuals" activity offers "Facial Hair/Mask" but I'm not seeing any patients arriving wearing masks. I read the question regarding patients with gowns but I don't understand the syntax for the "Index" field.

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FlexSim 20.1.2

healthcare visuals

Answer 1 · 2020-06-01T18:23:39Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Jun 1, '20

The index lets you choose one of the things in the list of choices that each shape has. For example, the Male Person/Staff shape has 4 different choices for Facial Hair / Mask. 1 would put a beard on the man, a 4 would put a Mask on them. The Female shape only has 1 choice, so a 1 would be a mask.

RandomMasks.fsm

I've attached a sample model that puts masks on 50% of the arriving patients. I added a Change Visuals option and configured it like this:

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randommasks.fsm (53.2 KiB)

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