If you have any features on the drawing that are not necessary to the simulation model, such as a wall or a door, it might be a good idea to make those layers invisible, so the visual space doesn’t become crowded. This screen allows you to customize which layers of your CAD drawing are visible, and even change the color of each layer. Our once massive drawing now needs to be put into position set the position along each axis to “0” to set the origin of the drawing at the center of our model.Ĭlick Next. To adjust the precision, go to Edit in the menu bar, select Model Settings, and then use the green plus sign in the Decimal Precision field to set your desired value. By default, FlexSim is set to show two decimal places of numeric precision. Don’t worry if you seem to be missing numbers after the decimal point, or if FlexSim is automatically rounding up or down your precise values are being stored. Click it, select “inches” from the drop-down menu, and then click the button below to convert to meters, our default unit. Click in the field for the drawing’s size along its X axis and notice that a new icon appears on the right this is our model unit conversion tool. We’re using meters as the default length unit in this model, but this drawing is scaled in inches, so it’s much too big unless we change its scale.
There is one problem with this drawing: it’s not properly scaled. There are three columns representing the X, Y, and Z axes, and three rows for each that correspond to the position, rotation, and size along each axis. On this screen you will position and scale your drawing. Click Next again to move on to the next screen. The next screen will ask you to specify the file path to the CAD file you’ll be using browse to the file on your computer and click Open. Make sure the AutoCAD Drawing button is selected and click Next. The wizard opens up in a new window and will ask you to specify whether you are importing a CAD drawing or an image file. You can find it in the Toolbox by clicking on the green plus sign to add a new tool, and then selecting Model Background.
In this video, we’re going to show you how to add a CAD drawing to your FlexSim model.ĬAD drawings and other images used as backgrounds in FlexSim can be easily imported using the Background Drawing Wizard.
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