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Hi All,

I saw this post on LinkedIn from Flexsim Mexico and I'm intrigued by the rotary fillers in the model

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/flexsim-mexico_planta-embotelladora-con-flexsim-activity-6777642128463024128-ICJd

I was wondering how this was created. I understand the basics regarding the animation however the use of individual filling station inside the carrousel I don't understand how this is done.

I'm looking for a solution like this because in my industry a lot of rotary equipment is used and I would like to simulate the acceleration and deceleration at start and stop of these kind of equipment.

Can anyone help me by sharing such a model. Or give me some goop pointers on how to create such a machine.

Regards Dirk

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Hi @Dirk Boumans, I'm not 100% sure but we would most likely solve this with drawsurrogates. This means that you have a 3D object of the rotating filler and the a seperate 3D object for the piston that pushes the bottle up. Those pistons are placed as drawsurrogate in the object at the right position and then if the filler rotates, they are rotating with it but because they are separate objects you can still let them go up and down with kinematics if you want.

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