Is it possible to change the color of one surface of a flowitem?

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csmcdavid asked Dec 30, '24 Joerg Vogel commented Jan 20, '25

Is it possible to change the color of one surface of a flowitem?

I have a flowitem which it would be more intuitively obvious to an observer (customer) that a process occurred and one color of the item changes, i.e. a red box goes through a processor and when it exits, the top surface is yellow

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FlexSim 24.2.3

flowitems change color

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Answer 1 · 2024-12-31T06:42:09Z

Joerg Vogel answered Dec 31, '24 Joerg Vogel commented Jan 20, '25

It is a matter of material assignment to a surface in your 3D shape data file. It exists a distinct color that is controlled by FlexSim interface.
https://archive.flexsim.com/threads/thread3181.html

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csmcdavid commented · Jan 20 at 03:38 PM

I am not following the logic of the link. It sounds like it is addressing an assembly. I want to change one surface, i.e. make the top of a yellow box to be red.

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Joerg Vogel csmcdavid commented · Jan 20 at 03:59 PM

@csmcdavid, give the sub surface a color by:

give the shape an ambient color value of rgb: (0.235,0.235,0.243)

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