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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Patrick,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Here are some ideas based on previous suggestions. (Caveat - I haven’t had to address issues with the expression dependency limit before.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Scott Criswell suggested “MaxExpDeps = 10” versus the default of 12. You could try experimenting with even lower numbers, until the problem goes away or you get a different problem from limiting the
 number of allowable references.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Scott’s other suggestions were as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">BDL source code mods to increase the limit of exp dep lists<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">removal of some fraction of the expressions contained in your INP file, and/or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">the addition of Set-Default statements in your INP file that replace additional BDL default expressions with static values or symbolic selections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">I like the Set-Default statements idea. Add commands within your expressions for SET-DEFAULT FOR SPACE, SET-DEFAULT FOR SYSTEM, SET-DEFAULT FOR ZONE etc. to reduce the number of DOE-2 default dependencies.
 There are many DOE-2 default expressions that are pretty elaborate, which could be replaced with uniform default values or simpler expressions. See for example, the DOE-2 default expression for ZONE:THERMOSTAT-TYPE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Using Input Macros in lieu of or in combination with keyword expressions may help. I am just starting to experiment with this BDL feature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lapierre, Patrick<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] BDL expression dependency limit<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">I’ve run up against the hard-coded limit of expression dependency in one of my projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">Reading the archives, I’ve tried the 2 solutions I found to increase the capacity but I’m still short.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">Those two solutions were :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="FR-CA">Adding « MaxExpDeps = 10 » into the project PD2 definition;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="FR-CA">Removing all « C- » keyword default expressions from the BDLDft.dat file (since they are only useful for Title-24 analysis);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">I’m wondering if anyone had some other insight as to how I could further increase the expression dependency capacities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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