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color:#1F497D'>Hi Vikram,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I experienced this error some time ago and I received a
response from Scott Criswell as shown below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>These error messages are posted by the mechanism which manages the 3-D
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<tt>building display. Often times these errors are an indication of very
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<tt>minor issues with your building's geometry, but there have been a few
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<tt>times when we could find no errors in the geometry on models that still
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<tt>reported VTK error messages.<br> </tt><br>
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<tt>Our recommendation is to re-check your model's geometry (as it sounds
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<tt>you have already done) and if the VTK errors persist then simply ignore
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<tt>them. They have no effect on the operation of the DOE-2 input (BDL)
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<tt>and simulation modules or the output simulation results.<<o:p></o:p></tt></span></p>
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[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vikram
Sami<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:15<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] vtk output Window<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Every time I open my
project I get a window open up titled vtkOutputWindow. It gives me the
following error message:</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'>ERROR: In
E:\vtk2.3\Nightly\vtk\common\vtkPolygon.cxx, line 1172</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'>vtkPolygon
(0x1478D268): Possible triangulation failure</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>There don’t appear to
be any BDL errors, and the model seems to</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>be
running ok as far as I can tell.</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Its
puzzling because I don’t have an E: drive on my computer. Any clues? Has
this happened o anyone else?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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