<div>I have also used this feature successfully on my 4 yr old, Windows XP machine. Send over your files (.pd2 & .inp) and I'd be happy to see if I can recreate the error on my machine...</div>
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<div>However, this is my guess on why it is crashing your file. From the images you sent you have 35-ish zones in your floor plan. I'm going to assume that you also have plenums for all these spaces...if so this means that you have 70 zones that you are asking to custom re-name. This is a lot of data for the littel eQuest wizard to handle.</div>
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<div>My sugesstion to you based on my simulation experience is that you need to simplify your zoning pattern for the sake of eQuest, and for your own sanity when you move into DDedit mode. It is poor practice for models to be zoned for every internal wall in the ARCH drawings. eQuest doesn't think like Arch programs, it thinks like HVAC programs so when you zone your floor plans you should combine all adjacent spaces that are "thermally alike". Not only will it simplify your model file so that DOE2 can easily process it (faster run times too) and it will simplify your inputs and the management of your inputs if you can streamline your input data for those spaces that you can combine.</div>
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<div>Unless you have an independent HVAC system serving each of your zones and they are all being conditioned to different thermal characteristics, it is not good modeling practice to zone every single space and internal wall from the ARCH dwgs.</div>
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<div>If you want more info or a review of your inputs and zoning pattern, I'm happy to make suggestions based on "if I were in your shoes...this is what I would do."</div>
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<div>cheers,</div>
<div>pkg<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Eddie Corwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecorwin@altanova-energy.com">ecorwin@altanova-energy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I am not sure if this is a new feature, but I never noticed it before. In the wizard, underneath the zoning drop down menu there is a button titled "Zone names and </span></font><font size="3" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Characteristics</span></font><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">" In there, there is an option to change the zone naming from "Automatic" to "User Defined". </span></font><font size="3" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Whenever</span></font><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> I select User defined, the </span></font><font size="3" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">program</span></font><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> hangs for a few seconds, than quits </span></font><font size="3" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">unexpectedly</span></font><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">. Has anyone gotten this feature to work, or know why it causes eQuest to crash on me?</span></font></div>
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<div>Attached are a few pix that show what I am taking about.</div>
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