How to change the location of items in a rack cell from y to x direction?

Community,

I got this question from a user and unfortunately I do not have the time in the moment to have a deep look into it. But maybe someone has an idea or a solution.

Normally items get place in y-direction in a cell (level/bay) of a rack. Is there a simple solution to place them in x-direction into the cell?
I guess that this can be done in the OnEntry Trigger and it’s collecting of information (number of items in a cell, etc.) and some math where to place the items depending on this information.

Anyway, the question is if there is a simple solution or does anyone have some code for this.

I will really appreciate if someone can help or has a good idea.

In OnEntry Trigger

setrot(item,0,0,90);

Qin Tian,

Thanks for the answer but that's not what I meant.
Maybe my description was not good enough.

I mean if there is place for more than one item in a cell the items are placed next to each other in y-direction.
First one e.g. y = 0, second one y = 0 + ysize(item), third one y = 0 + ysize(first) + yisze (second), etc.
I ask to place them in x-direction so that they are in a line like the horizontal line in a queue.

Community,

Now I know why nobody had an easy hint to solve the task to place items in a rack not in y direction but in x direction next to each other.

I build a small model which does the job and it took me more than two hours to figure out how to do it. The tricky bit was that the rack has own functionality or I am just slow in thinking and coding.

Anyway you can find the model in the Support Model section (which is meant for such models) of the download area.

/downloadPages/file&id=169


I solve the problem by set the locations of the items in the OnEntry and OnExit Trigger of the Rack and used the picklist options First Available Bay and First Available Level with some additional code to store some needed information. This was necessary because the rack has its own functionality how to place items (standard in y direction next to each other) which needed to be overwritten.


Not to be off-topic in this thread I opened another thread called "General remarks for the community by _TD". I would be happy if everybody would read this thread and give feedback. Thanks!