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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Thanks, Brian.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">My .pdl file size is only 1 KB. Many of the files I have opened recently were ones that were created by others, so there aren’t any changes to track.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Keith Swartz, PE
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">608.210.7123 seventhwave.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Brian Fountain [mailto:bfountain@greensim.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 08, 2016 11:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Keith Swartz <KSwartz@seventhwave.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Crashing with 3-D<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Keith,<br>
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I suggest looking at the size of the .pdl file. I have had models where after a large number of changes it gets huge (30 Mb or larger) and causes model crashes. Deleting that file has brought crashing models back for me.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 08/03/2016 11:58 AM, Keith Swartz wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">My eQUEST crashes when I go to the 3-D view. It goes to the 3-D View tab, but the view of the building doesn’t show up, a few seconds later I get a message “Building Energy Simulation
Tool has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Window will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.” A few seconds later eQUEST closes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It happens on files that others can see the 3-D view, so I believe the problem is with my computer, not the file. It happens with all files I get into. It started suddenly a
few weeks ago. I re-installed eQUEST. Our IT people will be checking my computer later this week, but I wanted to check with you guys to see if any of you had similar experiences or have possible solutions. One idea is a problem with the graphics card, but
all other graphics have been working fine.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Keith Swartz, PE
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Senior Energy Engineer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Seventhwave</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">608.210.7123 seventhwave.org</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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