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Introduction
The Flow Planner (FP) is an application used by industrial and manufacturing
engineers to evaluate material flow in industrial facilities in order to identify and
reduce the waste associated with materials handling. The FP diagrams, charts and
computes detailed flow information within specific layers in an AutoCAD layout
drawing. Flow diagrams can be generated in a straight-line or aisle-path route and
can be aggregated according to trip frequency in many different ways (called
aggregations).
The FP is tightly integrated with the AutoCAD application. As such, two versions of
the FP exist (stand-alone and add-on). These two FP versions are identical in
functionality, except that the stand-alone version incorporates the AutoCAD engine
inside of the application. The AutoCAD engine provided with the stand-alone
application does not have all of the features of the full AutoCAD license and is more
similar to that of the AutoCAD LT license. The add-on version links to a
user-provided AutoCAD license and essentially enhances that license with the
capabilities provided by the FP.
The FP application requires a license code (provided by your Proplanner sales
person) in order to operate fully. Without the license code, the FP will default into
Evaluation mode whereby only the Hydra Pumps.csv input routing files will be
accepted.
To use the FP add-on application you must have a version of AutoCAD, ADT, or
Mechanical Desktop (Supported versions of these are found in the README.TXT
file located on the installation CD) loaded on your computer, and you must provide
the serial number of this application to your Proplanner sales representative in order
to get your FP license code.
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