Version 9.8 - 4th May 2022

What’s new

  • [I] Physics Conveyor: an Encoder has been added to the physics conveyor to calculate the distance travelled. By default this ‘Encoder’ is not enabled. User need to enable it in Property Editor like this:

    In Simulation script the property is called ‘DistanceTravelled’ is a 32 bit unsigned integer and is read only. The value is in millimeters (or inches with imperial project):

      var c1 = GetComponentByNameAndType("PhysicsConveyor1", "Physics Conveyor");
  LogDebug("Distance Travelled millimeters: " + c1.DistanceTravelled);

    This new property can be used in Device IOs and Tags:

    [ref 29243]

  • BTS Import: New curve configurations have been added. [ref 29409]

  • [O] The Sym3 web service responsible for uploading projects (Sym3 Editor) and downloading projects (Sym3 Operator Client) now supports SSL. See here for configuration steps. [ref 29263]

  • [I] Physics: Physics equipment can now be used in the MyEquipment editor. [ref 29241]

  • [I] Physics: Friction and mass properties have been added to products. [ref 29463, 29501]

  • [I] Physics: Friction properties have been added to physics conveyors and physics chutes. [ref 29457, 29442, 29501]

  • [I] Physics: The underlying motion model of conveyors has been updated to incorporate friction, and to improve behavior of products on conveyors. [ref 29501]

Bugs fixed

  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where you couldn’t set the speed of a conveyor back to 1.3. [ref 29228]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where physics equipment could run at the wrong time warp setting when restarting the simulation. [ref 29239]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where products would flicker while being moved with the spacebar held down. [ref 29212]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where physics sensors that had their parent changed to ‘None’ would stop working. [ref 29316]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where physics conveyors with parents wouldn’t render products correctly. [ref 29720]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where physics chutes with parents wouldn’t render products correctly. [ref 29380]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where physics components wouldn’t work correctly if their parents were moved or rotated. [ref 29377]
  • [I] Physics: Physics conveyors and physics chutes will now appear in the correct place if the equipment dragged onto has a parent. [ref 29378]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where physics sensors that were on components with parents of their own wouldn’t function correctly. [ref 29379]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where products transferred to rotated physics conveyors would sometimes be at the wrong angle. [ref 29462]
  • [I] Physics: Fixed an issue where physics chutes wouldn’t transfer products on standard equipment correctly. [ref 29244]
  • [I] MyEquipment Editor: After deleting an equipment, new equipment are created nameless. [ref 29341]