Getting an imported shape into the yellow selection box

Thanks, Martijn. That's exactly what I mean it is not a problem for your guys because you are already familiar with the default Flexsim working mechanism. Just It would be better to be more user friendly.

BTW, I just noticed that you have much long orange and green bars than mine. I guess that is one nice reason to have a longer user name.

Guys,

You may want to notice that not all of the flowitems have or don't have shape nodes. The easiest way to tell if the flowitem has one or not is to open the properties window and see if a shape is specified.

If you were to add a new flowitem with the "New Item" button the new flowitem created would have had a shape node.

As a general rule of thumb I would create a new flowitem and wouldn't modify a flowitem unless I positively knew that the flowitem was exactly what I needed. The same rule applies to objects as well. I wouldn't modify a library object in the library tree unless I was quite sure it was exactly what I wanted. I would use the BasicTE or BasicFR instead.

Everything is done for a purpose and there are a lot of subtleties with objects that Flexsim developers have built into the software that aren't and shouldn't need to be explained. The reason for this is that if you want to make a new object an appropriate path has already been created for you.

As always you're free to go off the beaten path but you might end up as just that, beaten.

Good Luck,
Brandon

When you hit the New Item button in the Flowitem Bin, it creates a copy of the selected flowitem for you to work with. Alan had the Basic Box selected so the "new item" he got was a copy of the basic box: no shape node.

I've done all of the steps mentioned in this post. I created my 3d shape, sized it to 1x1y1z and moved it to location .5x.5y.5z. But when I bring my shape into flexsim, it comes in extra huge with no sign of a yellowbox. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've attached my shape. Can anyone help me with this?


So it wasn't working on my computer that is running on vista, but I just tried it on my laptop running xp and it worked out just fine. Probably just another vista issue..