Shortcuts, units and limits
Everything you may need to look up while working, on one page.
Keyboard shortcuts
On macOS use ⌘ where Ctrl is shown. Shortcuts are ignored while you type in a text field.
Everywhere
| Keys | Action |
|---|
| Ctrl+S | Save the project |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl+Y · Ctrl+Shift+Z | Redo |
| Esc | Cancel the gesture in progress; close menus; leave the expanded simulation view |
Draw
| Keys | Action |
|---|
| 1 | Select |
| 2 | Edit (reshape paths) |
| 3 | Pan |
| 4 | Path |
| 5 | Curve |
| 6 | S-curve |
| 7 | Station |
| 8 | Link |
| 9 | Traffic zone |
| F8 | Toggle Ortho |
| Ctrl (held) | Temporary Ortho; constrains moves and control points to an axis |
| Alt+click | Select the path under a station or link |
| Shift+click / Shift+drag | Add to or remove from the selection |
| Delete · Backspace | Delete the selection |
| Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V | Copy the selection / paste it by choosing base point and insertion point (Enter: lower-left corner, Esc cancels) |
Plant logic
| Keys | Action |
|---|
| Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V | Copy / paste selected blocks with their internal connections |
| Shift/Ctrl+click | Add or remove a block from the selection |
| Delete | Delete selected blocks or connection |
| Esc | Cancel a connection in progress |
Mouse, trackpad and touch
| Gesture | Action |
|---|
| Wheel · two-finger scroll | Pan (Shift + wheel: horizontal) |
| Ctrl + wheel · pinch | Zoom around the pointer |
| Middle-button drag | Pan |
| Two fingers on a touchscreen | Pan and zoom together |
| One finger in Simulate | Pan |
In the Plant logic editor the wheel zooms and the middle button pans. Adding a second finger cancels a drag still in preview; lift the remaining finger before the next gesture.
Units
| Quantity | Unit |
|---|
| Coordinates, lengths, distances, AGV size | millimetres (mm) |
| Speeds | centimetres per second (cm/s) |
| Acceleration and braking | cm/s² |
| Times, intervals, durations | simulated seconds (s); battery autonomy and charge time in hours |
| Angles | degrees, counter-clockwise from +X |
| Image CAD backgrounds | 10 mm per pixel |
Quick conversions: 80 cm/s = 0.8 m/s = 2.88 km/h; 1 m = 1000 mm.
Scenario defaults and ranges
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|
| Fleets | 1 | 1–8 |
| AGV count | 3 | 0–50 per fleet, 1–50 in total |
| Minimum distance between AGV centres | 1000 mm | 100–10 000 mm |
| Straight speed (per fleet) | 80 cm/s | 1–1000 |
| Curve speed (per fleet) | 40 cm/s | 1–1000 |
| Acceleration (per fleet) | 40 cm/s² | 1–1000 |
| Deceleration (per fleet) | 60 cm/s² | 1–1000 |
| Order interval | 60 s | 1–86 400 s |
| Pickup / drop-off time (per fleet) | 12 s / 12 s | 0–3600 s |
| Order priority | Oldest reachable | — |
| AGV selection | Nearest to pickup | — |
| Battery | Off | — |
| Battery thresholds | 30 % → 80 % | 1–99 % / 2–100 % |
| Disturbances (each kind) | Off | — |
| Disturbance frequency | Medium | Low … Extreme |
| Disturbance stop duration (min–max) | 5–30 s obstacles, 120–600 s faults, 30–120 s pickups and drops | 1–86 400 s |
| Manual zone reservation (each zone) | Off | Low … Extreme; 60–300 s |
| Backup for empty pickup / full drop | Off | — |
| Battery type (per fleet) | Lithium | Lithium, lead-acid |
| Unloaded autonomy (per fleet) | 8 h | 0.01–168 h |
| Charge time 0–100 % (per fleet) | 2 h lithium, 8 h lead-acid | 0.01–72 h |
| AGV drawing size, length × width (per fleet) | 1600 × 900 mm | 10–50 000 mm |
| Run duration | 8 h | 1, 4, 8, 24 h |
Limits
| Item | Limit |
|---|
| Traffic zones per layout | 100 |
| Measurements and text annotations | 1000 |
| Text annotation | 2000 characters, 30 lines |
| Plant logic | 200 blocks, 400 connections |
| Plant logic runtime | 500 sequences, 1000 pending orders |
| Runs in the comparison | 12 per session |
| Results of one archived run | 100 MB |
| Saved project or uploaded file | 100 MB |
| CAD source (DWG, ASCII DXF) | 100 MB |
| Snap distance | 6 screen pixels |
| Drawing grid | 100 mm |
What the model does and does not do
- Respects path directions and links; never invents reverse routes or repairs layouts.
- Integrates acceleration and braking; stops exactly before reversing.
- Avoids collisions locally with swept-footprint reservations and a braking corridor; exclusive zones add one-at-a-time access. With the traffic rules off it keeps only station, charger, parking and aisle capacity.
- Does not guarantee freedom from deadlocks, model steering or grip, or represent the safety of real vehicles.
- Battery curves are illustrative, not calibrated.
- Random missions and disturbances use the scenario seed. Matching layout, scenario, seed and engine version reproduce results at the same simulated duration; changing the model can change random draw order. Disturbance durations are the configured ones, not measurements of a real plant.
Glossary
- Allocation
- Choosing which AGV takes an order (AGV selection rule).
- Dispatching
- Choosing which queued order is served next (mission priority).
- Lead time
- Time from the creation of an order to its delivery.
- Execution time
- Time from assignment to delivery.
- P95
- The value below which 95 % of observations fall.
- Throughput
- Missions completed per hour.
- Utilisation
- Share of time a vehicle is not idle.
- Gridlock
- Vehicles with missions waiting on each other so that none can move.
- Return
- An idle vehicle driving to a free charger or parking; not a transport mission.
- Sequence
- In Plant logic, one independent flow through the blocks started by a trigger.
- Cusp
- A point where the vehicle changes direction of travel and must stop.