FlexSim 6 Beta

Hi,

Here is a problem from the last version. If I try to choose other connection type between paths by right click in the arrow and choose the option, it works well. But if I try to change it by dropdown box in the properties of NN, it doesn't work. The same happen if I try to change it directly in the node "type" of which connection in tree!

Attached is the model.

Best Regards.

Flavio.

Here is a bug wherein you can't start a new model after having run a loaded model to an error. View the video for the details to replicate it.

http://screencast.com/t/pKXV3sCMW19s

I can send you the model I used so that you can replicate this error.

When you rotate an object by clicking the arrows in V5.x it rotates in 15 degree increments. In V6 it is 1 degree.
I prefer the 15 degree increments.
Not a bug, just a change.

Bug introduced with V6 into the Flexsim Users Manual.

Under the chapter heading "Command Reference":

Category Reference does not display the command details by category as it did in V5.

In V6, there isn't a difference between clicking on "Category Index" and "Category Reference"

Any chance you will add the Error Checking (check mark box) to the GUI the same as to the regular code windows? It would be a big time saver.

The "Experimentation Report" that can be generated from the Performance Measures Results window is a nice report. A problem with it is it that it lists Number of Scenarios, Number of Replications Per Scenario, & Warmup Time at the top of the report but it doesn't print the "Run To Time" specified for the Experiment Run

Originally Posted by JMEngelhart

Any chance you will add the Error Checking (check mark box) to the GUI the same as to the regular code windows? It would be a big time saver.

The logic builder automatically does syntax checking without needing to push a button. If you have syntax errors in the logic builder, then it shows a yellow triangle warning symbol in the upper-right corner of the window with a count of how many syntax errors you have.

Additionally, it shows that same icon on each line with a problem. If you hover over that icon, then the popup tells you what the problem is.

User Event interface has a small problem. When I create a new user event, change the name, and clock "Apply", the name cannot be changed automatically in the left-side user event list. I have to close the user event window, and reopen it, and find the name is really changed.

But it is a small problem anyway, we have the same problem in Flexsim 5.

Hi everyone,

Regarding the tracked variables, I didn´t find anything in the help menu, so I´m not sure how they work and how to configure new ones. I think it would be useful to add something about them since it is new.

On the other hand, I couldn´t find the watch variable tool. Did it disappear from this new version?

Thanks!

Yes, we removed the watch variable tool. It was really slow and inefficient. With the new listener mechanism in version 5, watch variables became obsolete. Look at the documentation for listenerinfo() to see how to use the new, efficient listening mechanism. Old models with watch variables will still work the same way; we just removed the menu option for adding new ones.

Tracked variables have two commands: settrackedvariable() and gettrackedvariable()

Whenever settrackedvariable() is called, a record is recorded of the time and the variable's new value. You can then see a graph of these values using the Dashboard.

WIP and TimeInSystem are two variables that are automatically tracked by the objects using the above commands whenever items are created or destroyed.

When I reselect an option in dropdown box "Down Function" or "Resume Function" it doesn't declare the access variables: "downobject", "state", "downtime" (Down Function only) and "membercoupling" (Down Function only).

The same happen with variable "involved" into "First Failure Time", "MTBF" and "MTTR".

I know it is way past new features time, but in a future version, it would sure be nice to have the ability to Mirror an Object.
ie: We often have lines that are mirror images of each other. If I have a casepacker that is laid out one way, I would love to be able to click on it and say "Mirror on X" or "Mirror on Y" and have it be a mirror image of the visual.

Feel free to add this in to the V6 release and impress the heck out of me.

You may yet be my Hero!

Originally Posted by JMEngelhart

I know it is way past new features time, but in a future version, it would sure be nice to have the ability to Mirror an Object.
ie: We often have lines that are mirror images of each other. If I have a casepacker that is laid out one way, I would love to be able to click on it and say "Mirror on X" or "Mirror on Y" and have it be a mirror image of the visual.

Feel free to add this in to the V6 release and impress the heck out of me.

How about we add this feature back in version 4? See attached screenshot.

If you just want to mirror the 3d shape, change the SX or SY shape factor to negative.

In preparation for the final release soon, we have released another beta available in the login section of the website. You will need to uninstall the previous beta before installing the new beta.

All of the bugs brought to our attention should be fixed in this new beta. Please let us know in this thread of any bugs you find.

NOTE: The previous beta has a bug with the uninstaller. It doesn't correctly remove the Flexsim6\program\flexsimweb directory. You should manually delete that directory after uninstalling the previous beta. If that empty directory remains, the dashboard statistics won't be displayed correctly.

Still see this in beta3:

If you find and replace strings with an empty string (to perform a delete) Flexsim hangs when trying to open the listed code edits.

If you zoom far out with a 3Dmouse, click in the view and then click the window positioning top bar of the 3D view - then when you zoom back in into the model (without clicking the mouse in the view), the viewnear value can have higher value than normal (4metres) at ground level and close to the objects, causing too much clipping.

"Step Into" at the end of code in the debugger still goes into OnContinueDebugger (particularly if the last line is blank?)

Still in Beta 3 some issues on Experimenter :
- Perfomance Measure trigger is not accepting any flexscript code change (simply is not stored).
- Sometimes Performance Measure "Name" and "Label for Y Axis" are lost, mainly when the model is stored with Experimenter' s GUI open and a Performance Measure Selected and then re-opened.
- Same for any trigger on the "Advanced" tab : if available picklist are choosen, trigger code show the newly added flexscript, if you try to make manual modification on the code they' re are lost.
- "Run to Time" and "Warmup" parameters are inconsistent with model units : in the attached model they' re set to 36000 and 3600 (minutes), the model 's time unit is minutes, but if you run experimenter and print on the console the simulation data (with "Start Of Replication", "End Of Warmup", "End Of Replication" triggers) we got the following :

Start of Run
Current Time (mins)=0.000000
Current Run of Scenario=1.000000
Current Scenario=10.000000
End of Warmup
Current Time (mins)=60.000000
Current Run of Scenario=10.000000
Current Scenario=1.000000
End of replication run
Current Time (mins)=600.000000
Current Run of Scenario=10.000000
Current Scenario=1.000000

The replication simulated time has been divided by time units.

- "Start Of Experiment" and "End Of Experiment" trigger are never called.

- When using, as Experiment variable, "Number Of Taskexecuters" it seems that Flexsim renames some of these TE. It will create errors when the model' s logics will identifiy these TEs with their name. I didn' t check the other options, such us "Number Of Objects in Group". Automatic object name changes, in Experimenter, have to be avoided, IMHO.

- It is not possible stop Experimenter to a completed replication and then restart from that point, which is very useful when PC crashes and experimenter campaign last several hours, if not days.

- It is not possible debug any of the experimenter trigger (out of printing console messages).

- It is not possible write back simulation data into a Global Table (for example for a summary report) or any treenode / data node.

See the attached Test Model

Regards

Visual Tool is not affected from the set object' s reset position.