StraightBeltConveyor Properties

Gets all connectors.

Field Value

Type: 
When true, allows scripting to wait for the OnMoved event. This is false by default to avoid performance degradation for visuals that move frequently. <p> Example scripting: <pre> sender.AllowWaitOnMove = true; Wait( sender.OnMoved ); </pre>

The current angular velocity of the Visual in radians/second.

Determine if any animations are currently in progress for this Visual.

The global application object.

Field Value

Type: 
This is the angle to rotate the conveyor along the direction of the conveyor. This can be used to produce nose overs or unders or baggage carousels.

Field Value

Type: 
This determines how to display the graphics for the end of a belt conveyor.

Field Value

Type: 
This determines how to display the graphics for the start of a belt conveyor.

Field Value

Type: 
This overrides the BeltDiameter if UseBeltCenterHeight is true.

Field Value

Type: 
The color to display for the conveyor belt

Field Value

Type: 
Diameter of the belt ends and therefore the height of the belt itself.

Field Value

Type: 
The length of the conveyor belt

Field Value

Type: 
The width of the conveyor belt

Field Value

Type: 
If true, then the visual will always face the camera. This is useful for text that should always face the user, for example. <p> Note that the visual's Rotation property will be set automatically, and so will overwrite any updates made from scripting or from the property grid.

Field Value

Type: 
The catalog order code of the component as it appears in the bill of materials, e.g. "'XYZ-203-37.TZ1'". If this is blank there will be no entry in the bill of materials for this component.

Field Value

Type: 
The cost of the component as it appears in the bill of materials, e.g. "1595.95".

Field Value

Type: 
The description of the component as it appears in the bill of materials, e.g. "Driven Roller Module". If this is blank there will be no entry in the bill of materials for this component.

Get the bounding box of this visual including all its children.

Get the bounding sphere of this visual, including its children.

Field Value

Type: 
Shows whether this object casts a shadow or not. Useful for large objects such as warehouses where the walls shouldn't cast shadows on the conveyors.

(Inherited from StraightConveyor.)

(Inherited from StraightConveyor.)

Field Value

Type: 
The color of the center line for a conveyor. Useful when using conveyors as vehicle tracks.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether the physics of the conveyor surface is enabled or not. Defaults to True.

Field Value

Type: 
A profile of the conveyor center module.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether the graphics of the center of the conveyor are visible or not (e.g. rollers, belt, etc.). Defaults to True.

Return the collection of child Visuals.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether to model the physics of the conveyor end as a cylinder shape or a box shape.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether to model the physics of the conveyor start as a cylinder shape or a box shape.

The diffuse color of the first mesh material on the mesh object.

The diffuse colors of the all the mesh materials on the mesh object.

Field Value

Type: 
A list of visual Types that are allowed to connect to this visual. If empty, then all visuals are allowed to connect, provided they are not specified in the ConnectDisallowed list, and that the connector-specific rules also allow the connection. <p> See also: <ul> <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Visual.ConnectDisallowed <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Connector.Allowed <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Connector.Disallowed </ul>

Field Value

Type: 
A list of visual Types that are not allowed to connect to this visual. If a Type appears in both ConnectAllowed and ConnectDisallowed, then ConnectDisallowed takes priority and the connection is not allowed. <p> See also: <ul> <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Visual.ConnectAllowed <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Connector.Allowed <li>Demo3D.Visuals.Connector.Disallowed </ul>

All pairs of connectors from this visual.

Field Value

Type: 
A white list of control points that should be shown and editable.

Field Value

Type: 
A black list of control points that should be hidden and not editable.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether the conveyor is static (Deflector), movable (Vehicle) or whether it tilts or lifts (Tilt or Lift). Tilt or Lift may be automatically set if a tilt or lift method is called.

Field Value

Type: 
The distance from the floor to the top of the conveyor surface (top of roller or belt).

(Inherited from MeshObject.)

The current destination for this visual (usually a load). This can be used by equipment to decide which direction to transfer a load, or it can be ignored. It is specific to the equipment processing the load.

The Visual that the load is current at waiting to be ordered. Any Visual can be a Station but LoadCreatorVisual the first station set when calling LoadCreatorVisual.OrderLoad(). This is normally set for loads.

Field Value

Type: 
The angle of the conveyor in degrees relative to its fully untilted state, which is when the conveyor is at its InclineAngle.

Information about the current transfer in progress for this visual using the Transfer Protocol. This is normally set for loads.

The collection of CustomProperty objects for this Visual.

Return all visuals below this point in the Visual hierarchy .

Return all visuals below this point in the Visual hierarchy .

A description of the Visual.

Field Value

Type: 
The angle in degrees that the conveyor surface is moving relative to the normal conveyor direction (0=straight ahead, 90=right, -90=left)

The document that this Visual belongs to.

Whether the visual be dragged using the mouse.

Field Value

Type: 
The difference in vertical height when the conveyor is inclined. It is the length opposite to the incline angle.

Field Value

Type: 
The distance from the end of the conveyor element to the end of the side rail.

Field Value

Type: 
Cap the end of the conveyor preventing loads from falling off the end.

Number of triangular faces in the mesh

Number of faces in Mesh for Visual and all its children.

The first child visual of this visual, or null if this visual has no children.

Field Value

Type: 
For a load or vehicle this will create a fixed joint between it and its parent unless there is another joint in the way. This should be true for creating composite loads or vehicles or false where there is just a logical connection to the parent, e.g. boxes in a tote.

Field Value

Type: 
The name of the material to be use to determine the coefficient of friction when in contact with another friction material.

Field Value

Type: 
The name of the material to be use to determine the coefficient of anisotropic friction when in contact with another friction material.

The full name of this Visual, including the names of all Parent Visual separated by '.' characters.

Field Value

Type: 
When Kinematic is false this is used to set whether or not gravity affects the movement of the conveyor.

Determine if this Visual has any children or not.

Determine if this Visual has any siblings or not.

(Inherited from Visual.)

Field Value

Type: 
The horizontal length of the conveyor. This is only different to the Length if the Incline Angle is set, then it is the length adjacent to the incline angle.

A unique identifier for this Visual.

Field Value

Type: 
The angle that the straight conveyor is inclined at in degrees (usually 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30).

Field Value

Type: 
When right clicking on the object should child objects menu items be included. Default is false.

Field Value

Type: 
The state of the lift (Up or Down) after a project reset.

The InitialLocation of the Visual in meters from the Origin of the Parent Visual.

The InitialLocation and InitialRotation in Matrix form.

Field Value

Type: 
The parent that should be assigned upon reset. This is useful for vehicle-type components that should reset their position to a particular track section, for example.

Field Value

Type: 
Moves the visual back to its initial location and rotation when Reset is pressed.

The InitialRotation of the Visual in degrees relative to the Rotation of Parent Visual.

The InitialRotation in Matrix form.

The InitialRotation of the Visual in radians relative to the Rotation of Parent Visual.

Field Value

Type: 
The state of the tilt (Up or Down) after a project reset.

The InitialLocation of this Visual and all its Parent Visuals in Matrix form.

The InitialLocation and InitialRotation of this Visual and all its Parent Visuals in Matrix form.

Is this visual a floor visual.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether the motor direction is forwards or not.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether the motor is on or off.

Field Value

Type: 

Field Value

Type: 

Can this visual change its Location/Rotation relative to its parent at runtime. This is used to improve simulation and graphical performance by analyzing what can and can't move during a model run.

There is a mesh and the properties are set to visible.

Whether this visual and all its ancestor visuals are Static.

Field Value

Type: 
Move the conveyor kinematically instead of dynamically which means the conveyor will lift or tilt with infinite force.

(Inherited from ConveyorVisual.)

Field Value

Type: 
The layer for this object. If (As Parent) it inherits its layer from its parent, which may in turn inherit the layer from its parent, etc.

Padding between the conveyor surface and left side

Field Value

Type: 
The color, shape and dimensions of the left profile.

Field Value

Type: 
The direction to move the lift in.

Field Value

Type: 
The maximum force that the lift motor can apply.

Field Value

Type: 
The maximum extent of the lift (LiftState = Up).

Field Value

Type: 
The maximum velocity of the lift motor.

Field Value

Type: 
The minimum extent of the lift (LiftState = Down).

The visual's X, Y, and Z coordinates relative to its parent.

The visual's X coordinate relative to its parent.

The visual's Y coordinate relative to its parent.

The visual's Z coordinate relative to its parent.

Field Value

Type: 
The mass of the conveyor.

The current matrix transform of the Visual local to its Parent Visual.

Field Value

Type: 
The speed, direction and power status of the conveyor's motor.

(Inherited from ConveyorVisual.)

Field Value

Type: 
The current speed of the motor.

Field Value

Type: 
If set then the motor for the specified conveyor is used to drive this conveyor as well. The direction arrow will disappear for this conveyor and only be shown for the other conveyor.

Field Value

Type: 
If True, then MoveTo, TurnTo will issue events that indicate when the visual has started accelerating, cruising, decelerating and has stopped. <p> When enabled, the events are issued as OnAnimatorEvent. <p>An example function that will handle these events is: <pre> function Box_OnAnimatorEvent( sender : Visual, args : AnimatorEventArgs ) { switch (args.EventType) { case AnimatorEventType.Accelerate: print("Accelerating"); break; case AnimatorEventType.Cruise: print("Cruising"); break; case AnimatorEventType.Decelerate: print("Decelerating"); break; case AnimatorEventType.Stop: print("Stopped"); break; } } </pre>

The name of the Visual.

The native C# scripting class instance for this visual

Field Value

Type: 
The namespace and class name to instantiate for this Visual, e.g. Demo3D.Components.Component (in this case Demo3D.Components.dll will be loaded to try to find the class)

Field Value

Type: 
The string used to format the new name of this component if it is copied or added to the project from a catalog. The variable name "ID" will generate a unique number for that type of component in the current project.

Convenience properties for accessing attached conveyors.

The next sibling of this visual, or null if this visual has no siblings.

Field Value

Type: 
The list of distances at which to fire the OnNotifyDistance event. Once the distance is reached the event is fired at that distance is removed from the list.

Field Value

Type: 
The list of speed changes at which to fire the OnNotifySpeedChange event.

Field Value

Type: 
The list of speeds at which to fire the OnNotifySpeed event.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs after a property of the parent visual is updated.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs after a property of the visual is updated.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs after a property of a visual that has this visual in its PropertyUpdatedSubscribers list is updated.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when an animator completes.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the visual starts to accelerate, cruise, decelerate and stop during a MoveTo or TurnTo command. Note that this event will only be issued if MoveToEventsEnabled is set to True.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs before a property of the parent visual is updated.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs before a property of the visual is updated.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a child is parented to this visual after the reparenting has been performed.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a child is unparented from this visual after the reparenting has been performed.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the visual is clicked on in demonstration/navigation mode.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when this visual is connected to another visual

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs after a custom property of the visual is renamed.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs after a custom property of the visual is updated.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when this visual is disconnected from another visual

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a visual has finished being dragged to a new location.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a visual is about to be dragged to a new location.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the end stop of a conveyor is hit if the end stop is set to Visible.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs at the end of each experiment. This allows finalization of any data collection, for example.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs at the before each experiment starts running but after the current experiment row variables have been set. This allows initialization of the model to be done before OnInitialize has been called.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs at the start of each experiment. This allows for initialization of any data collection, for example.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when Export is called from the Tag Browser. This allows custom information to be written about each tag in addition to the default data.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when Play is pressed at time 0.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a key is pressed or released and this visual is selected.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a key is pressed and this visual is selected.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a lift conveyor reaches LiftMinHeight. Can be used to transfer to a lower level of conveyor.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a lift conveyor reaches LiftMinHeight or LiftMaxHeight. If set, this overrides OnLiftUp and OnLiftDown which won't then be called even if they are set to a script function.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a lift conveyor reaches LiftMaxHeight. Can be used to transfer to a higher level of conveyor.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the document is loaded.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a message is sent from another visual's MessageListeners list.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the conveyor motor is turned off. This allows a single point where the motors for multiple sub-assemblies can be turned off as well.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the conveyor motor is turned on. This allows a single point where the motors for multiple sub-assemblies can be turned on as well.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the mouse moves away from the visual.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the mouse moves over the visual.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the mouse enters the visual.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a mouse button is released after being pressed on the visual.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a visual has moved or rotated. NOTE: For fast moving objects like loads this can be a performance hit.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a MoveTo or TurnTo has finished.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the conveyor has traveled the distance indicated by the next entry in the NotifyDistances list.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs whenever the characterization of the motor's movement changes.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs whenever the conveyor attains certain speeds entered in the NotifySpeeds list.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs whenever the conveyor's speed changes by the magnitudes entered in the NotifySpeedChanges list.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when a parent or parent's parent, etc. has moved or rotated. NOTE: For fast moving objects like loads this can be a performance hit.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the parent for the visual changes.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs before OnInitialize is called. The OnPreInitialize is called for every visual in one pass. Then a second pass calls OnInitialize for every visual.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when processing volumetric physics contact points. Arguments are the sender, the load visual and the contact details (of type ContactInfo). Implementing this handler can severely impact performance.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs whenever the render status of a visual type is changed. This is usually in response to the user pressing one of the "Show X" buttons on the toolbar; for example, "Show Lights", "Show Support Stands", etc.

Field Value

Type: 
Reports collision impulses. Reporting of impulses must be enabled on the Scene. Implementing this handler can severely impact performance.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when Reset is pressed.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the status of the "Show Direction Arrows" configuration is changed.

Field Value

Type: 
Called in linear physics when a load is able to transfer from one conveyor to another. This allows custom control over how the transfer appears and how long it takes.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when the document is unloaded

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when this visual is added to the model. The scene's "OnVisualAdded" is also called for each visual that is added.

Field Value

Type: 
Occurs when this visual is removed from the model. The scene's "OnVisualRemoved" script is also called whenever any visual is removed.

Field Value

Type: 
If True will set ShowEndSupport True or False when the end connector is connected to another conveyor or not. It defaults to True.

The parent Visual for this Visual.

The default collision margin for physics collision geometry belonging to the visual's PhysicsBody.

Whether the physics for the visual is enabled or not.

Field Value

Type: 
Visuals that will be notified when any custom property on this visual is updated. Each visual will be notified via its "OnAfterSubscribedPropertyUpdated" script. <p> See also: <ul> <li>OnAfterSubscribedPropertyUpdated </ul>

Field Value

Type: 
The number of pulses that the conveyor motor has counted so far. The conveyor DistanceTravelled/PulseDistance.

Field Value

Type: 
How far the conveyor should travel before emitting a pulse.

Field Value

Type: 
Are pulses enabled for this conveyor.

Field Value

Type: 
The mode through which pulses should be generated.

Field Value

Type: 
How long during a pulse should the signal remain high. This is a number from 0 to 1.

Field Value

Type: 
The current state of the pulse for the conveyor motor.

Padding between the conveyor surface and right side

Field Value

Type: 
The color, shape and dimensions of the left profile.

The rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to ts Parent Visual.

The rotation of this Visual relative to its Parent in Matrix form.

The rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to its Parent Visual.

The X rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to its Parent Visual.

The X rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to its Parent Visual.

The Y rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to its Parent Visual.

The Y rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to its Parent Visual.

The Z rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to its Parent Visual.

The Z rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to its Parent Visual.

Field Value

Type: 
If this component is clicked on or is included in a selection rectangle then the parent is selected instead and its properties are shown instead. Once this is set the properties can only be changed from the Project Explorer Window.

Field Value

Type: 
Shows a center line for a conveyor even if the conveyor itself doesn't show anything. Useful when using conveyors as vehicle tracks.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether the end support is shown or not.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether to show an arrow indicating the direction of the motor.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether the start support is shown or not.

Field Value

Type: 
Defines the shape of the side ends.

Field Value

Type: 
Enter a non-empty name for each property that should be shown in the Simple Properties view.

Field Value

Type: 
In linear and planar physics, this is the offset from the center that the load should travel down. This is only applied in PlanarPhysics if SimulationCenterSnap is true.

Field Value

Type: 
In planar physics, this states whether the load should snap to the center of the conveyor when the load arrives at that conveyor.

Field Value

Type: 
The preferred physics mode to be used for this conveyor. The default is linear but if this isn't support by the edition it will default back to planar physics. The document level physics mode sets the overall default. Volumetric will override everything. Planar will override everything except for where the preference is for Volumetric.

Field Value

Type: 
In linear and planar physics, this states whether the load rotation should snap to orient it with the conveyor direction when the load arrives at that conveyor.

(Inherited from ConveyorVisual.)

Field Value

Type: 
The distance from the start of the conveyor element to the start of the side rail.

Field Value

Type: 
Cap the start of the conveyor.

Surface area of shape - for certain shapes (e.g. box, sphere, cylinder) this is overridden and it is accurate Otherwise it is the surface area of the triangular faces in the mesh. This requires a "closed" mesh, that the mesh does not have both front and back faces, and any overlap in the mesh will be counted multiple times.

Surface area of Visual and all its children.

Field Value

Type: 
The color and texture of the surface of the conveyor (belt, roller or chain). This texture moves with the surface on the conveyor at the motor speed.

Field Value

Type: 
The color and texture of the sides or end of the conveyor (belt, roller or chain).

Field Value

Type: 
If 0 then the tiles long are based on the conveyor width, keeping the texture square. If greater than 0 then this is the distance along the conveyor that the surface texture should be shown until it repeats.

Field Value

Type: 
If 0 then the tiles long are based on the conveyor width, keeping the texture square. Use a number greater than 0 to specify the exact number of times the surface material texture should repeat along the length of the conveyor surface.

Field Value

Type: 
The number of times to repeat the surface material texture along the width of the conveyor surface. This defaults to 1.

Field Value

Type: 
If 0 then the tiles long are based on the conveyor width, keeping the texture square. If greater than 0 then this is the distance along the width of the conveyor that the surface texture should be shown until it repeats.

Field Value

Type: 
List of names that can be used to provide multiple categories of components in a catalog. The catalog can show only components with tag "Pallets", for example.

Field Value

Type: 
Which stop the lift is currently moving to.

Field Value

Type: 
Which stop the tilt is currently moving to.

Field Value

Type: 
The angle to tilt down from the horizontal when TiltUp() is called (in degrees).

Field Value

Type: 
How long in seconds the complete tilt operation should take.

Field Value

Type: 
The maximum force that the tilt motor can apply.

Field Value

Type: 
The local pivot point about which the conveyor tilts when TiltUp() and TiltDown() are called.

Field Value

Type: 
The angle to tilt up from the horizontal when TiltUp() is called (in degrees).

Field Value

Type: 
The format string for the tooltip that appears for an object.

Get the top level visual, the one which has no parent.

The current state of transfers in or out of this visual using the Transfer Protocol. This is normally set for transfer enabled equipment (not loads).

Whether this visual supports the Transfer Protocol. This is normally set for transfer enabled equipment (not loads).

A type string for the Visual.

Field Value

Type: 
When true, BeltCenterHeight overrides BeltDiameter to specify the height of the belt.

Field Value

Type: 
Whether to enable anisotropic friction or not. Defaults to False. An example usage of this is with a gravity roller where FrictionMaterial has a very low coefficient of friction and FrictionMaterial2 is something like Steel to represent a spinning roller.

Field Value

Type: 
A string that can be used to store any custom data about the visual. This is passed to the WebGL and VR renderers to be used in remote applications.

Field Value

Type: 
A dictionary of user key value pairs that can be used to store any custom data about the visual.

The current linear velocity of the Visual in meters/second.

Number of vertices in the mesh

Number of vertices in Mesh for Visual and all its children.

Field Value

Type: 
Indicates if the built-in visual is drawn. If not visible, the component will still operate as normal, allowing it to be grouped with an imported graphic for custom component types.

Field Value

Type: 
The object becomes visible when it's center is this distance from the camera or greater. The default is 0. Useful for level of detail control.

Field Value

Type: 
The object becomes invisible when it's center is this distance from the camera or greater. The default is Infinity. Useful for level of detail control, such as hiding small objects like bolts when they get far from the camera.

Volume of material in shape - for certain shapes (e.g. box, sphere, cylinder) this is overridden and it is accurate Otherwise it is the volume enclosed by the triangular faces in the mesh. This requires a "closed" mesh, that the mesh does not have both front and back faces, and any overlap in the mesh will be counted multiple times.

Volume of Visual and all its children.

The world axis aligned bounding box of this Visual including the bounding boxes of all the child visuals and their children.

The world axis aligned bounding box of this Visual only (excluding any children).

Get the bounding sphere of this visual, including its children, in world space relative to the Scene.

Get the bounding sphere of this visual, excluding its children, in world space relative to the Scene.

The visual's world X, Y, and Z coordinates relative to the Scene.

The visual's world X coordinate relative to the Scene.

The visual's world Y coordinate relative to the Scene.

The visual's world Z coordinate relative to the Scene.

The Location and Rotation of this Visual in Matrix form.

The world rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to the Scene.

The rotation of this Visual relative to the Scene in Matrix form.

The world rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to the Scene.

The world X rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to the Scene.

The world X rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to the Scene.

The world Y rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to the Scene.

The world Y rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to the Scene.

The world Z rotation of the Visual (in degrees) relative to the Scene.

The world Z rotation of the Visual (in radians) relative to the Scene.

The world X-Axis for the visual

The world Y-Axis for the visual

The world Z-Axis for the visual