Change Model Start Time

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anon-user asked Sep 29, '20 Matthew Gillespie edited Jun 7, '22

Change Model Start Time

About Model Units.

Is it possible to change the Model Start Time using FlexScript?

What FlexScript do I need to write?

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.0.9

flexsim 19.0.9 start time model units time units change unit

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Oct 06, 2020 at 08:46 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-09-29T15:30:46Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Sep 29, '20 Matthew Gillespie edited Jun 7, '22

You should use the DateTime constructor.

For versions 21.1 and later use:

DateTime startTime = DateTime("9/11/2020 07:00:00", "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S"); 
function_s(getmodelunit(START_TIME_NODE), "setDateTime", startTime);

If you want the warmup and stop times to keep the same relative model times you should update them too:

// Update the warmup and stop times so they keep the same model times
treenode warmupNode = getmodelunit(WARMUP_TIME_NODE);
function_s(warmupNode, "setModelTime", getsdtvalue(warmupNode, "modelTime"));

treenode stopNodes = getmodelunit(STOP_TIME_NODE);
for (int i = 1; i <= stopNodes.subnodes.length; i++) {
    treenode stopNode = stopNodes.subnodes[i];
    function_s(stopNode, "setModelTime", getsdtvalue(stopNode, "modelTime"));
}

For versions 20.0 - 21.0 use:

DateTime newStartTime = DateTime("9/11/2020 07:00:00", "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S"); 
treenode startNode = getmodelunit(START_TIME_NODE); 
startNode.value = newStartTime.value; 
applicationcommand("convertunixtime", startNode, startNode.value);

For versions before 20.0:

See this answer: https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/79484/which-are-the-commands-to-update-the-startwarm-ups.html

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