Recorded Factories allow you to record the material flow in one area of a simulation
to use as a factory in another simulation. The running simulation of any material entering
the Recorder box is tracked and written to a file. Once the simulation is complete, the
recorded data can be used as a factory in any subsequent simulation. You can have multiple
recorded factories and recorders in a simulation.
To add a Recorder to a simulation:
Set up the simulation.
In the Creator, create a Box Geometry.
Select Recorder from the Type
dropdown list.
Set the Start Time and End Time
for the recording.
This allows you to specify when the Recorder will be active and enables
simulations to reach steady state prior to starting the recording.
Click Optimize Thickness to change the size of the
recorder to the most efficient size.
This will ensure that there is sufficient thickness to capture the data but
eliminate the overhead of recording excessive information.
Reposition the box to the point where you want the data recorded.
Run the simulation.
To add a Recorded Factory to the Simulation:
In the Creator, create a Box Geometry.
Right-click the Box and select Add Factory > Add Recorded Factory.
In the Particle Generation dialog box, click
Choose Factory Folder to navigate to the folder
which contains the Recorder data.
Select the Start Time and End
Time to limit the time in which material is generated.
Select the Loop Factory checkbox to run repeatedly
through your Recorded Factories.
Select a value from the Delay between Loops dropdown
list to add a pause between replays.
Note:
Known restrictions of Recorded
Factories
Recorded factories are known to have the following
limitations:
Factories cannot be rotated from the original recording
position.
The Recorder and Factory cannot exist in the same simulation
(the recording simulation must be run prior to starting the
factory simulation). It is assumed that particles are flowing
out of the Recorder.
If a particle re-enters the recording space, contact detection
will not occur.
The Recorder and writing the factory file adds a computational
overhead to the simulation.
