Option periodic rates for process time not working as expected in v20.2.3

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Cesar C5 asked Nov 13, '20 Ben Wilson commented Dec 1, '20

Option periodic rates for process time not working as expected in v20.2.3

In FlexSim v20.2.3 when I use the option "periodic rates" to set up "process time" of a processor, the processor stops completly (doesn't process more parts).I dont have this problem in v19.1.0, this are the test that I made

test_update1.fsm (v19.1.0 ok)

test_update2.fsm (v20.2.3 same model, no ok, processor stops, output always 0)

In other test I noticed that the variable "cycletime" of the processor is set to 0 if "periodic rates" is used. I think this could be related with the problem as in my understanding "cycletime" should have a value greater than 0.

test_cycletime.fsm (v20.2.3, cycletime = 0 if option "periodic rates" is used)

How can I make this work in v20.2.3 as it shown in this tutorial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fAF3ut4Inw

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.2.3

flexsim 20.2.3 flexsim 19.1.0

test-update1.fsm (22.3 KiB)

test-update2.fsm (29.4 KiB)

test-cycletime.fsm (35.5 KiB)

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Dec 01, 2020 at 04:53 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-11-21T23:00:15Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Nov 21, '20 Jason Lightfoot edited Nov 21, '20

If I load update1 into 20.2.3 it runs fine. It looks like somehow the periodic rates table is deleted from under the cycletime varnode when the template to view the hourly table is access in version 20.2.3 and 21 beta - I'll report this as a bug.

Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

In the meantime if you want to edit the table you could browse to the periodic Rates table shown here:

then right click the node and choose Explore -> As Table.

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