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Question Seperating new flow items

Hi,
I want to use seperator to create new parts.

Input part for seperator = PartAB
and after seperating i want to create new parts PartA 5 nos. and PartB 10 nos.
Is it possible?

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Hi Sambhaji,

I am attaching a solution with the post.The command known as insertcopy is used in the exit trigger of the seperator to tackle this situation.Please see the attached model.

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Hi,

Yes, it is possible. Use the option split in the separator tab. The return value should be the whole amount of items you want let exit the separator. In your case 15 items leaving the separator. That is the first step of the answer. In the second you must send a part of the 15 items to different ports. You can count the leaving items and save the amount to a label. Depending on the label's value you decide which item goes to port 1 or 2. You can use a modulus operator in a if-statement to send every third item to a specific port, all other items to the other port. The approach consists of the use of the function getoutput(obj), where obj is the pointer to the current object (the separator).
On the OnExit trigger you can rename the leaving items depending on the port they use.
If you are begining to understand flexsim, it would be better to use more objects. First split an item in the separator to 15 items. Let the items leave the separator to a queue. In the queue you send the items to different ports. With this appoach you have more triggers to manipulate the items and you don't have to understand in which order the separator executes his functions and when there is still one item and when there are 15 items to handle.

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Thank you Arun & Jorg....

Is it possible to do it without using "Combiner"?

Source creates main part "Box" with item type =1 and label "PartType" = PartAB.
It passed thru Queue, Processor and then Seperator(Splitter). This Splitter have to destroy main part (item type =1 , label Part Type = PartAB) and create new 2 new parts (item type =2, label Part Type = PartA & item type =3 , label Part Type = PartB)..
Part type 2 will go to 1st output connection and Part type 3 will go to 2nd output connection.

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Why do you want to destroy a flowitem, when it can become the item type =2, label Part Type = PartA?
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Thank you Arun & Jorg....

.. This Splitter have to destroy main part ..
If you don't like the separator to split items, you can still use the command createcopy which create a copy of an object even an item from the item bin.
Change the attributes in a trigger or create your own items in the item bin, which you copy then.

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I want to delete because total i have to create 15 items (10+5). If I don't delete main part then i ve to create another 14 items.
So i want to make it simple. Destroy main part and create new 15 items.
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I think, you should try the radio button split in the separator tab of his object's proberty window and set the return value to 15 in the function split/unpack quantity. Then count the outgoing items, please. In my model I count 15. My only concern is that I have to change the itemtype, the labels, the name and perhaps the shape of the items in the OnExit-Trigger. Why is it important to create 15 new items and to destroy one. And why do you want to create new items by yourself, if the Flexsim engine does it for you.

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Default Seperating new flow items

Hey thanks!! Jorg...This works...
To answer your question.... Actually I want to simulate laser cutting operation where we have big sheet as input and then we cut different parts in different quantities from this sheet and then the skeleten is just destroyed..

Thank you for your help!!


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