offset patient from the path

Hi

I would like the patients to travel on the path with certain amount of random offset, so that different patient has different offset from the path. How can I do it? I can't use the distance offset on the node as it will offset all patients to the same distance.

Thanks

David

Hi david,
Try giving different acceleration and speed to patients
Edit:Sorry misunderstood the question

Hi david,
I do not know HC.But i read that modelers use patients in conjunction with flowitems in HC.I do not know that this idea works or not
Try using this code setvarnum(current,"prodxoffset",3); for x direction
setvarnum(current,"prodyoffset",4); for y direction and give different offset values to different patients.Note that this code is used only for flowitems not for moving resources because the label prodxoffset are intended for flow items only.

Sagar

Thanks. But I do not see such a variable in the patient.

David,

the network nodes have a variable "sideoffset" which you can change for every single traveler OnArrival.

Best wishes

Ralf
FlexSim

Hi David,
If you want to sideoffset for all networknodes in a model copy this code in a script window and will be executed.It will change the sideoffset value of all network nodes in a model to a range of offset distance between 2 and 5

treenode nnobj = node("/travelnetworks/NetworkNode", library());
double offset = duniform(2,5);
int index;
forobjecttreeunder(model())
{
if(objectexists(classobject(a)) && classobject(a) == nnobj)
setvarnum(a, "sideoffset", offset);
}

The above code is working only for version 5 and 6.It is not working in Version 7.Can any one fix this problem.

The NetworkNode is not direct under the library anymore but under a sub node in the library tree.
So changing the first line to:
treenode nnobj = node("/travelnetworks/NetworkNode", library());

Should do the trick. (I haven't tested it!)

Thanks Steven,Now its working perfectly