<div>Susan,</div>
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<div>my guess is that this is a memory/refresh issue that eQuest & your computer are fighting about. If you have many other programs open while you are trying to run a really LARGE eQuest file you will run into issues with the 3-D graphic viewer and memory problems.</div>
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<div>As far as "testing"--we are engineers & scientist and all good models and all good simulators run "tests" or "experiments" to better understand how the program is behaving. Remember two things: </div>
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<div>1) if you are not "testing" your models, you are not doing quality work to make yourself a good simulator--(I hate it too sometimes, but I have to force myself to be the scientist that I am and that I was trained to be. We have to "suck it up" and take the extra time to do the extra work. </div>
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<div>2) just because you see a problem with eQuest itself doesn't always mean that there is a problem with your simulation (DOE-2.2) results...remember that eQuest is a user interface and effectively eQuest is only the translator between you (the user) and DOE-2 the simulation engine. Sometimes if you can get by with out having to see the 3-D model images you can still run your simulations without the visual reference. If you don't need to look at your 3-D model view you should still be okay to continue with your inputs and go foward with your simulation.</div>
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<div>For more assistance post your .pd2 & .inp file for others to look at, however where you had mentioned your file takes soooo long to open this is discouraging to those of us that are trying to meet our own project deadlines. One other thought for the future is to work with an experienced modeler or attend a training class where you can learn how to simplify your models and inputs for the sake of a more efficient model file without losing design details that will affect the energy consumption. </div>
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<div>My immediate advice would be: close every other program you are running simultaneously, and it might even be beneficial to just restart your computer to clear it's memory, and then run some experiments to know what this visual error is or is not affecting in your model, try and figure out how you can re-zone your model so that it simplifies the run times on your model.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Susan F <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:modelsenergy@gmail.com">modelsenergy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">The tab is really gone - see attached. It seems to be when I set SHADING-SURFACE = YES. I haven't tested this many times yet though as the model takes a long time to open. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Nick Caton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com" target="_blank">ncaton@smithboucher.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">If you mean the 3D view is blank (typical on opening a large previous project in my experience), that’s something easily corrected by running a simulation in my experience… if there’s a faster way I’d like to hear it though!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-SIZE: 11pt">If you mean you’ve literally lost the tab on the top – that’s weird! I don’t have any answers for you, but it might help to post a screenshot.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan F<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] lost the 3D Geometry tab</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In one of my models I have lost the 3-D Geometry tab - any idea of how to get it back?<br><br>TIA.</p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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