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Tee Hiett asked Aug 17, '20 Matthew Gillespie commented Sep 1, '20

How do I make the attached model repeat daily cycle 5 or more times?

New Flow Model_4.fsm

How do I make the attached model repeat daily cycle 5 or more times?

Thanks,

Tee

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.3

flexsim 20.1.3 repeat daily

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Aug 18, 2020 at 03:30 PM

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about changing the stop time so that the model runs for 5 straight days?

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Tee Hiett commented · Aug 18, 2020 at 05:12 PM

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I'm not sure either. I was having a problem with a model and I wanted to see the model run 3-4 replications to see what happens. I couldn't find much in the user manual about the Repeat Interval and the Cycle options. So I guess my question really should have been how are the Repeat Interval and the Cycle options used in FlexSim 2020.1?

Thanks,

Tee

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Matthew Gillespie answered Aug 25, '20 Matthew Gillespie commented Sep 1, '20

The Repeat Interval and Cycle Count settings let you control when and how many times the table repeats when creating tokens. The Repeat Interval controls how often the table repeats - every day, every week, etc. The Cycle Count controls how many times it repeats.

Here's an example where I have one arrival between 8 and 8:30 AM:

With the Repeat Interval set to Daily and the Cycle Count set to 3 the source creates 3 tokens at times:

8/25/2020 8:17:39 AM

8/26/2020 8:12:33 AM

8/27/2020 8:15:49 AM

So every day for 3 days in a row I get a token arriving between 8 and 8:30 AM.

With the Repeat Interval set to Weekly and the Cycle Count set to 4 the source creates 4 tokens at times:

8/25/2020 8:17:39 AM

9/1/2020 8:12:33 AM

9/8/2020 8:15:49 AM

9/15/2020 8:29:27 AM

So now every week for 4 weeks in a row I get a token arriving on Tuesday between 8 and 8:30 AM.

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Tee Hiett commented · Aug 26, 2020 at 01:13 PM

Thanks, @matthew.gillespie. Your description of the Repeat Interval and Cycle Count is what I wanted to occur. But I could not get my model repeat for the second cycle? What am I doing wrong in that model?

Thanks,

Tee

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Tee Hiett commented · Sep 01, 2020 at 07:45 PM

@tee.hiett You have your stop time set for 5:30 on the same day. You should change your stop time to be the next day so that your model can run more than just a few hours.

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