Dear Joke,<br /><br />I am not really sure why this is happening, but I will contribute my thoughts. Was there any relevant information in the ism log file? Were you able to import your IDF file without problems? You have 3D geometry mode?<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />Matt<br /><br /><div style="background-image: url(http://webmail.fusemail.com/de/r_bg_img.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: 50% top">----- Original Message -----<br />From: "Joke De Beuckelaer" <joke.d@vkgroup.be> <br />Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 10:06<br />Subject: [TRNSYS-users] Error: generating shading/insolation matrix<br /><br /><table cellspacing="5" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><div class="PrivateMsgDiv"><style type="text/css"></style><div class="bodyclass"><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Trnsys-users,<p class="MsoNormal"> !

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m using Trnsys17 3d for the first time, but I’ve some problems with introducing a shading building.<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When I want to generate the shading/insolation matrix I get the following error:<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <p class="MsoNormal"><img id="Afbeelding_x0020_1" width="596" height="420" alt="" src="https://webmail.fusemail.com/sq/src/download.php?absolute_dl=true&passed_id=373&mailbox=INBOX&ent_id=1.2" /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black" lang="NL-BE"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black" lang="EN-US">Can anybody help me to solve this problem?<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black" lang="EN-US"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black" lang="EN-US"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black" lang="EN-US">Thanks in advanc!

 e,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black" lang="EN-

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