Equipment: Physics Chute
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Description
The Straight or Spiral Chute component is used to simulate gravity chutes, typically to transport products from a sorter or a conveyor on to a sort destination.
Once a product is on a physics chute it will be controlled by the physics simulation – falling off of edges, down inclines, and colliding with other products. Even if the next transport is stopped, product will pushed to the next transport.
Creation
From the Toolbox, simply drag and drop a Physics Chute into the simulation.
Access
In Project Explorer, right click on Equipments > New > Physics Chute.
Properties
Common
| Name | Description |
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| Source | Name of the equipment that feeds products on the Physics Chute. |
| Source Distance | Distance from the beginning of the previous equipment where the products are transferred to the Physics Chute. |
| Destination | the destination equipment for Product leaving this Physics Chute. |
| Destination Distance | the distance from the beginning of the destination equipment the product will be placed. |
| Type | Can be one of Straight or Spiral. |
| Base Height | The height of the base of the Physics Chute in the units chosen when the project was created. (metres or feet) |
| Width | Width of the Physics Chute. |
| Length | ONLY when ‘Straight’. Length of the Physics Chute in the units chosen when the project was created. (metres or feet) |
| Height | ONLY when ‘Spiral’. The height on the spiral Physics Chute (ie difference in Z coordinate between the top and bottom of the Physics Chute) in the units chosen when the project was created. (metres or feet) |
| Arc | ONLY when ‘Spiral’. Arc of the spiral in degrees. (can be more than 360) |
| Radius | ONLY when ‘Spiral’. The spiral radius. |
| Side Panel Height | Default = 0.3 (meters) Height in the units chosen when the project was created (metres or feet) of the Side Panel. |
| Side Panel Width | Default = 0.04 (meters) Width in the units chosen when the project was created (metres or feet) of the Side Panel. |
| Friction | Default = 0.25 The friction value of the chute. Minimum 0.0, maximum 10.0. The friction value of a product is multiplied with the friction value of the chute, resulting in the final friction coefficient, where 0.0 means no friction and 1.0 means complete friction. For example, if a product with a friction value of 0.5 is on a chute with a friction value of 0.8, the final friction coefficient between the chute and product is 0.4 – 0.8 times 0.5. |