The block places the incoming agents (material items) in a conveyor network but does not start the items transportation by a conveyor (while the item becomes accessible from the conveyor network and starts to interact with other material items).

To start the transportation, use the Convey block of the Material Handling Library after this block. Commonly you place blocks of the Process Modeling Library between these two blocks to make some decisions or perform some operations with the material items prior to starting their transportation by conveyor(s). If you do not require adding any other blocks, you can use only one Convey block instead — it will place material items on the conveyor and then immediately start the transportation to the specified destination point in the conveyor network.

Agents do not spend any time inside this block.

Demo model: ConveyorEnter Open the model page in AnyLogic Cloud. There you can run the model or download it (by clicking Model source files). Demo model: ConveyorEnterOpen the model in your AnyLogic desktop installation.

Entry point defined as

Here you can choose how you will define the place inside the conveyor network where material items will be placed by this block. There are two alternative options:

Conveyor — Select the conveyor where you want material items to be placed. If you need to place the items not at the start point of the conveyor, but in some other place, you can specify this place by defining the distance from the start or end point of the conveyor to the leading edge of the material item (in the parameter Offset, see below).
Position on conveyor — Select the space markup element Position on conveyor that defines the exact point of the conveyor graphically.

Name: positionType
Type: ConveyorEnter.PositionType
Set new value at runtime: set_positionType(new value)
Valid values:
ConveyorEnter.CONVEYOR_OFFSET — Conveyor
ConveyorEnter.POSITION_ON_CONVEYOR — Position on conveyor

Conveyor

[Visible and applies only if the Entry point is defined as: Conveyor]
The conveyor where the material items will be placed.

Type: ConveyorPath
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

Offset from

[Visible and applies only if the Entry point is defined as: Conveyor]
Choose here where to count the offset from The beginning of the conveyor or The end of the conveyor.

Type: boolean
Default value: true — The beginning of the conveyor
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

Offset

[Visible and applies only if the Entry point is defined as: Conveyor]
The distance from the start or end point of the conveyor to the leading edge of the material item being placed on the conveyor by this block.

Type: double
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

Position on conveyor

[Visible and applies only if the Entry point is defined as: Position on conveyor]
Select the space markup element Position on conveyor defining the exact place on the conveyor where material items will be placed by this block.

Type: PositionOnConveyor
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

Change orientation

If selected, you will be able to change the orientation of the material item that enters the conveyor by selecting the new leading edge of the item in the Orientation field below.

Type: boolean
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

Orientation

[Visible and applies only if the Change orientation option is set]
If you need to rotate the material item when it is placed on the conveyor, choose here the side of the item that must be facing the direction of travel:

Front
Rear
Left
Right

Type: AgentOrientation
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)
Valid values:
AGENT_ORIENTATION_FRONT — Front
AGENT_ORIENTATION_REAR — Rear
AGENT_ORIENTATION_LEFT — Left
AGENT_ORIENTATION_RIGHT — Right

Set dimensions

If selected, you can alter the dimensions (length, width, height) of the agent (material item) being placed on the conveyor by this block.

Type: boolean
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

Length

[Visible and applies only if the Set dimensions option is set] The new length of the material item.

Type: double
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

Width

[Visible and applies only if the Set dimensions option is set] The new width of the material item.

Type: double
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

Height

[Visible and applies only if the Set dimensions option is set] The new height of the material item.

Type: double
Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

On enter

Here you can type Java code that will be executed when the agent (material item) enters the block.

Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

On cancel enter

Here you can type Java code that will be executed when some agent currently living in preceding block decides not to go through this block.

Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

On at enter

Here you can type Java code that will be executed when the agent decides that it most likely will go through this block.

Local variable: T agent — the current agent (material item)

in

The input port.

out

The output port.

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