[Equest-users] User Defined Zone - Crashes

[Allgood, Anthony]

All,

I have found a workaround to eQUEST freezing while renaming zones in the Design Wizard.

I found that if I select a zone that doesn't freeze the program, I can use the TAB key to cycle through the rest of the zones and rename accordingly. I used the TAB key to do this, saved, then went back to see if I could edit the space just by clicking on its title and it froze again. This workaround method seems to work well when manually clicking the zone will not. Thanks to everyone who responded with suggestions.

As a side note, I discovered that if you inadvertently leave the zone name blank and try to come back to it, you won't be able to name it again - either through the TAB cycle through method or clicking on the zone. I had to delete the zone and remake it.

Thanks,

Anthony Allgood

From: Brian Fountain [mailto:bfountain at greensim.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 2:43 PM
To: Allgood, Anthony
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] User Defined Zone - Crashes

You may wish to try just "file importing" your .inp file into a new, blank file.  I have had that recover a file giving me odd errors before.  You lose your wizard data and need to reset your weather location, but beyond that everything you put into the detailed interface is in the .inp file.

May be worth a try.

Good luck.

On 6/9/2011 2:29 PM, Allgood, Anthony wrote:
Kim,

I did as you suggested and checked my vertices with each space as well as the footprint. I fixed the couple I found that were off, saved and restarted eQUEST. Even after all of that the program still froze when trying to rename zones. I also had an issue where adding the roof completely crashed and closed the program. Maybe using an older version will help so I'm going to try that next. Right now I'm using version 3-64.

Thanks,

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From: Anthony Allgood <allgood.anthony at gmail.com<mailto:allgood.anthony at gmail.com>>
Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>


Hello All,

I've created zones for a building and now I've set out to rename each zone according to the space that it serves. It seems that on certain zones I click to rename, eQUEST freezes up and must be forced to close. Looks like it does this mostly on the perimeter zones as I haven't had this problem with interior spaces.

Has anyone else run into this issue? Is this an issue with the program or could it be the need for more RAM or maybe a conflict with my video card?

Computer Details:
lenovo
Intel Core 2 Duo vPro, E8400 @ 3.00 GHz
Windows XP Professional, v 2002
Service Pack 3
3GB RAM
Virtual Memory @ 4092 MB
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
Radmin Mirror Driver V3 (not sure what that is)

Thanks,

Anthony


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From: Kimberly Wiebe <Kimberly.Wiebe at burohappold.com<mailto:Kimberly.Wiebe at burohappold.com>>
Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:18 PM
To: Anthony Allgood <allgood.anthony at gmail.com<mailto:allgood.anthony at gmail.com>>


In the wizard when you are giving user defined named to your spaces and it freezes like that, it usually means that one of the vertices associated with that zone is not in the right place. I actually use this error to check my geometry. Go back to the zone in question and make sure all the points are aligned with the adjacent zones' points or footprint points. Make sure all unnecessary vertices are deleted and that there are no gaps between spaces.

Best of luck,
Kim

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