[Equest-users] Wizard BDL Error When Defining Custom Zones

Tue Sep 13 12:02:51 PDT 2011

I don't personally have the time to dig at this today - but another
suspect cause from what I've read is that one or more of your
shells/zones may geometrically be in conflict with each other, even if
only by a small amount.  I'd therefore review your shell placement
inputs (I always use coordinates myself), and see if moving them
distinctly apart has any effect on whether errors are encountered, as
well as whether you're not accidentally specifying zone vertices that
result in conflicting zone footprints (CAD/vertex snaps can be deceptive
at times, even when you're being careful).

Good luck team!

~Nick

NICK CATON, P.E.

SENIOR ENGINEER

Smith & Boucher Engineers

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olathe, ks 66061

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Diglio
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:11 PM
To: Pasha Korber-Gonzalez; Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr.
Cc: equest-users
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Wizard BDL Error When Defining Custom Zones

Patrick:

Thank you for your efforts.  No, I don't have a zone group without a
zone attached to it.  Kindly check the attached files to see if I missed
something.

Pasha:

Attached is the project rev1 and rev2 files.  Rev1 is fine with one zone
added on the first floor main shell.  Rev2 is with a second zone added
to the first floor main shell and is where I am encountering the
problems.

Thank you so much for checking this out for me.

Paul Diglio

________________________________

From: Pasha Korber-Gonzalez <pasha.pkconsulting at gmail.com>
To: "Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr." <poleary1969 at gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Diglio <paul.diglio at sbcglobal.net>; equest-users
<equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Sent: Tue, September 13, 2011 12:50:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Wizard BDL Error When Defining Custom Zones

Paul---how about attaching your .pd2, .inp, and dwg file and see if we
get the same error on our computer....

My guess is that it is a shell error, or some corruption in your whole
file....you might have to start a new file.

I'm happy to try and recreate the error on my computer.

Pasha 

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr. <
poleary1969 at gmail.com> wrote:

looking at screen 14, do you have a zone group defined without a zone
assigned to it?  this would be the same as having an empty zone in
detailed mode (i.e. no space assigned to a zone).  detailed mode
requiring the space (your initial customing zoning) assigned to a zone
(the zone group wizard screen 14) assigned to an hvac unit of some type.

On 9/13/11 8:41 AM, Paul Diglio wrote: 

	Patrick:

	The HVAC unit is assigned for each zone I enter.   Initially, I
had one zone per floor.  When I started to add custom zones I made sure
that each zone on screen 14 of the shell create/modify wizard is
assigned to the hvac system.

	I am unsure of what the error message means so I am having
difficulty correcting it.   I even tried to create custom zones on the
second floor of this building and I get the same error, but I was able
to create custom zones in the basement of this building without any
errors.

	Sincerely,

	Paul Diglio

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