<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Johannes,</div><div><br></div><div>If using TrnOpt 16.1, please make sure that you are also using GenOpt 2.1 and not the latest version 3.0.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, if you have Trnsys17, you can indeed upgrade the Tess Libraries at a very small price. Please contact your Trnsys distributor for more info.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br><br><div>Matt Duffy</div><div>Thermal Energy Systems Specialists</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Sent from my mobile wireless device. Please excuse any typos.</div><div><br>On May 11, 2011, at 4:51 AM, "Gantner" <<a href="mailto:Gantner@transsolar.com">Gantner@transsolar.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Dear TRNsys Users,<o:p></o:p></span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Probably this question was already asked before, but I couldn´t find it. So I hope <o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Someone could help me out with my problem.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">I wanted to use TRNOpt (TrnOpt 16_1) for the optimization of my trnsys model (Trnsys 17).<o:p></o:p></span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">When I start the optimization, TRNsys works, my simulation is running, but when GenOpt<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">starts I receive an error message on the GenOpt window:<o:p></o:p></span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Initialize.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">genopt.lang.OptimizerException:<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Error in searching for the objective function value:<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> The objective function value could not be found.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Check the optimization ini file for<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> the prober value of SimOutputFile.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Check the SimOutputFile for the prober<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> structure.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> - Check the optimization configuration file for<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> the prober value of the objective function delimiter.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Objective function delimiter is 'Variable Value 001 ='.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">GenOpt terminated with error.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">See logfile for further information.<o:p></o:p></span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">This error occurred also when I tried the TrnOpt Example.<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Can anyone help me with this problem<o:p></o:p></span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Thanks a lot<o:p></o:p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Best<o:p></o:p></span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Johannes<o:p></o:p></span>
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