creation of a flowitem charged with a item

Hi all,


Can I create a flowitem ( i.e person) from a source with initially charged object(i.e box)?

Thank's !!

Juan,

there is a thread which is about a lot of other stuff, but there is also a discussion about havíng an object in a flow item.

http://www.flexsim.com/community/for...ead.php?t=1075

I guess post number 4 and number 7 give you some hints, as I understand right what you are trying to do. Forget about the other posts and stuff in this thread ...

The question is what are you going to do to have an item in an item. But you can refer to this item by first(item) or lets say from an object first(first(current))).
So the main idea is to put an item already in the item in the flow item bin, which is done in the tree.

I hope I gave you the right hints.

Thank's Tom.

Your information has been helpful

Originally Posted by Tom David

Juan,

there is a thread which is about a lot of other stuff, but there is also a discussion about havíng an object in a flow item.

http://www.flexsim.com/community/for...ead.php?t=1075

I guess post number 4 and number 7 give you some hints, as I understand right what you are trying to do. Forget about the other posts and stuff in this thread ...

The question is what are you going to do to have an item in an item. But you can refer to this item by first(item) or lets say from an object first(first(current))).
So the main idea is to put an item already in the item in the flow item bin, which is done in the tree.

I hope I gave you the right hints.

Hi Tom,

I've tried to create a flowitem with one item and it works perfectly, but imagine the following:


The source will generate flowitems, and these may come out with 1,2,3,4, or 5 objects (items) were randomly.

For example, the first flowitem sale loaded with 2 items, the second flowitem item comes loaded with 1, the third comes with 5, the fourth with 2 ...

How to program this?

Thank's.

Then I would use the OnCreationTrigger on the Source.
I would make copies of the items I like to insert into the item depending on a random number and put them into the item. The commands you need are createcopy(), transfernode()/moveobject() depending if there are any triggers should be fired.
Because createcopy copies nodes you can also copy items from the flowitem bin. Normally I put the item copy first into the model() and transfer/move it from there into the target container (item). Reference is: last(model()). I am not sure why, but I guess once I had an issue here, which might be fixed by now.

I did not test it, but I am pretty sure this will work, because I did something similar some time ago.

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Perhaps a less complicated way to approach this problem would be to just use 2 sources and a combiner:

Set the first source to be the schedule, sequence, or interarrivals of people.

Set the second source to have an interarrival time of 0 so there are always boxes for the combiner to pull.

Use the Update Combiner Component list pick option to change how many boxes are wanted as each person enters. Change the combiner's processing time to 0. Update the locations of the items on exit of the combiner if so desired.