Trigger animation on process start instead of finish?

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Jonathan asked Nov 13, '20 Ben Wilson commented Nov 21, '20

Trigger animation on process start instead of finish?

There's an option in the processor pick list for on process finish but what about on process start?

I have an operator with other things going on and I want their animation to trigger on for when they start processing at a certain processor. I can then use the on process finish trigger to turn it off.

A future feature that may be useful is "do [event]". Event could be animation, message, or anything. You would choose "Do [event]" from the pick list and it would have boxes to fill in for start trigger, stop trigger, who's performing event, and what the event to Do is (animation, move, message, etc...).

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FlexSim 20.2.3

flexsim 20.2.3 triggers

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Nov 21, 2020 at 05:33 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-11-13T19:59:13Z

Cliff King answered Nov 13, '20 Jason Lightfoot edited Nov 17, '20

There's not a "Process Start" trigger for a Processor. Maybe that's your point? There is an "On Entry" trigger and an "On Setup Finish" trigger though, and both of those trigger fields have a pick list option for starting/stopping an animation. The "On Setup Finish" trigger is the same event time as the start of the process, so that ought to work for you, right?

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 13, 2020 at 10:02 PM

You could try detecting the Process Time and the Stop/Resume events.

In the example model attached the Process Time event's token is connected to a StartAnimation Activity, while the Stop event's token preempts the Process Time token and restores it when the processor's operator arrives after waiting for the resume event.

Example attached.

AnimatorOperatorDuringProcess.fsm

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Jonathan commented · Nov 13, 2020 at 08:02 PM

Not really. I've got flow items that enter while the operator may be performing a task elsewhere. So it causes the operator to start doing an animation while they're moving around performing the other task.

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