Hey Matteo,
You can setup the 'Entity Generator' block so that the 'Time source' is set to 'MATLAB action'. Then you can write the following:
persistent genTwice;
if isempty(genTwice)
genTwice = true;
end
if genTwice
dt = 1;
genTwice = false;
else
dt = 0;
genTwice = true;
end
The value returned by the MATLAB action is 'dt', which is the delta time for the arrival of the next entity or the entity inter-generation time. By flipping the value of dt to be either 1 or 0, you can achieve what you want.
If you have a more complex entity generation pattern, you can read in the values from an excel sheet or a MAT file into your workspace and assign them to dt.
You can see the shipping example seExampleEstimatingAssemblyLineThroughput, that reads from an excel sheet to generate parts as per a pre-defined schedule.
- Krishna
