Distance Sensor

General Questions
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Hi
Is there a way to make a sensor measure distance?
I have been going through the forums but so far I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet. Ive seen people track items using this Conveyor Tracking Add-on but my goal per so isnt to track the object, just to measure the distance.
Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciate :slight_smile:

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Hi @Maffi
You could try using a raycast sensor with range signal.
I attached a small example with a sensor I made for myself. Hope you like it.
Example_Sensor.vcmx (376.0 KB)

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This is great! Thank you so much!
I managed to figure out a way myself using “RangedSignal” in the standard Conveyor Sensor and hooking it up to a process executor but your solution is way cleaner!

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That’s great! Note that the raycast sensor uses polling, so if you add more than a few to your layout, it can considerably affect the performance. The conveyor sensor could have a better performance as is.

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That certainly could explain the drop in performance ive been noticing. Is it also possible that process excecutors would affect performance if set to repeat tasks every 0.001 second?

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The same rule applies here.
If you have multiple such executors I would reduce the polling frequency or try to modifying the logic to be event-based.

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Thank you so much for the advice! Ill take it to hearth and make sure i don’t abuse my already weak pc hahahha.

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Hello, im using the distance sensor but the value does not change, it stays the same value as the one that says the maximum distance of the sensor.

Thanks in advance!

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It seems that the paired value refers to a constant parameter value instead of the numeric signal that tells the measurement value.

  1. Go to Modeling tab and find the Raycast Sensor behaviour of the sensor component
  2. Make sure that the RangeSignal has some Real-type signal assigned
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  3. Use the same real-type signal for the variable pairing. It should look like this in the Connected Variables panel:
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Thanks, it finally works! By the way is there any website to see other persons proyects? So i can get ideas of new projects?

Thanks in advance!