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Placing Flowitem into imported 3D Object/Flowitem

In the attached model, I'm looking at time 8:22:38 AM on "Station 1 Combiner". I have a custom 3D object (Shipping Crate) that arrives on the combiner and flow items that should be placed inside of the Shipping Crate, but they are being stacked on top. I tried adjusting the location of the item but it's adjusting the shipping crate and not the items being inside. What's the best way to place the items inside of the shipping crate when the items are arriving to the combiner in the second port?

Manufacturing Model.fsm

FlexSim 21.0.0
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You should create a new packing method for the crate.

I've done something basic in the attached model where the packing method 'Crate' places the first item 6 inches off the base of the crate shape and the rest are packed in alignment with that but within the yellow bounding box of the crate. To get the precise effect either refine the code or adjust the shape factors so that the yellow bounding box is within the crate shape space and reflects the exact 'packing space'. This makes me think we need a seperate 'packing space' cuboid (or cuboids) for a container with location and size both Vec3 - I'll suggest it.


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