changing shape factor when changing 3d shape

Hi,

I'm facing a problem when I change a flowitem 3D shape in a trigger, i cannot change the 3d shape factor at the same time. Is there any command to change the shape factor?? I tried to find but fail.

The shape factor can be found in the tree of the object in the spatial node. For example the shape factor X is in the tree under spatial of the object and the node offsetx. With the command setnodenum() the value can be set.

setnodenum(node(">spatial/offsetx",current),0.4)

All information of objects, the model, etc. can be found in the tree. The difficult bit is sometimes to find the node.

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Since all spatial nodes are attributes, there is a little bit easier syntax for those:

set(offsetx(current),0.4);


You recognize that "offsetx" is printed in green as all attributes are in Flexsim. Look under help into the Attribute Hints. Although it does nothing else than Tom´s line of code

ralle
aka
Ralf

Kelvin,

If you modify the 3D shapes before you save them as wrl files then you could set things up so that you don't have to modify the shape factors in Flexsim. If you posted your files and the shape factors you are trying to modify then I could help you out with this method.

Good Luck,
Brandon