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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'>All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'>I have found a workaround to eQUEST freezing while renaming zones in the Design Wizard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anthony Allgood<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Brian Fountain [mailto:bfountain@greensim.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 09, 2011 2:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> Allgood, Anthony<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] User Defined Zone - Crashes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<br><br>May be worth a try.<br><br>Good luck.<br><br>On 6/9/2011 2:29 PM, Allgood, Anthony wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Kim,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anthony Allgood</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Assistant Mechanical Detailer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Burns & McDonnell</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3650 Mansell Road, Suite 300</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alpharetta, GA 30022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Direct: 770-510-4559</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Main: 770-587-4776</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fax: 770-587-4772</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:73.5pt;text-indent:-73.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:aallgood@burnsmcd.com">aallgood@burnsmcd.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:73.5pt;text-indent:-73.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.burnsmcd.com/" title="http://www.burnsmcd.com/">www.burnsmcd.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:73.5pt;text-indent:-73.5pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Proud recipient of PSMJ’s Premier Award for Client Satisfaction</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green'>P</span></i><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span></i><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green'>Help protect our planet: Do not print this email unless necessary</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:rgb(181,
196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Anthony Allgood [<a href="mailto:allgood.anthony@gmail.com">mailto:allgood.anthony@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 09, 2011 9:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> Allgood, Anthony<br><b>Subject:</b> Fwd: [Equest-users] User Defined Zone - Crashes</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Forwarded conversation</span></b><br>Subject: <b>User Defined Zone - Crashes</b><br>------------------------<br><br><span class=undefined>From: <b>Anthony Allgood</b> <<a href="mailto:allgood.anthony@gmail.com">allgood.anthony@gmail.com</a>></span><br><span class=undefined>Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM</span><br><span class=undefined>To: <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a></span><br><br><br>Hello All,<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br>Computer Details:<br>lenovo<br>Intel Core 2 Duo vPro, E8400 @ 3.00 GHz<br>Windows XP Professional, v 2002<br>Service Pack 3<br>3GB RAM<br>Virtual Memory @ 4092 MB<br>NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295<br>Radmin Mirror Driver V3 (not sure what that is)<br><br>Thanks,<br><span style='color:#888888'><br>Anthony<br><br></span><br>----------<br><span class=undefined>From: <b>Kimberly Wiebe</b> <<a href="mailto:Kimberly.Wiebe@burohappold.com">Kimberly.Wiebe@burohappold.com</a>></span><br><span class=undefined>Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:18 PM</span><br><span class=undefined>To: Anthony Allgood <<a href="mailto:allgood.anthony@gmail.com">allgood.anthony@gmail.com</a>></span><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Best of luck, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Kim </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:-moz-use-text-color
-moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <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>Anthony Allgood<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:25 PM<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] User Defined Zone - Crashes</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This message has been scanned by MailController - <a href="http://portal1.mailcontroller.co.uk" target="_blank">portal1.mailcontroller.co.uk</a> | <o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'>This message has been scanned by <a href="http://portal1.mailcontroller.co.uk/" target="_blank">MailController</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>This message has been scanned by MailController - <a href="http://portal1.mailcontroller.co.uk" target="_blank">portal1.mailcontroller.co.uk</a> | <o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'>This message has been scanned by <a href="http://portal1.mailcontroller.co.uk/" target="_blank">MailController</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Equest-users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a href="mailto:EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=avgcert>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3690 - Release Date: 06/09/11<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:windowtext'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#9D9DA1' align=center></span></div><p class=avgcert><span style='color:windowtext'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3690 - Release Date: 06/09/11<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>