Dear Mr Hand, I have updated to Ver. 11.6., and bitmap facility works perfect. Regards, Mostapha Sadeghipour <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jon Hand <<a href="mailto:jon@esru.strath.ac.uk">jon@esru.strath.ac.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> First suggestion is to update to version 11.6. You may find that this particular issue does not happen in the newer version. We have not had reports of recent failures. The error message seems to indicate that the geometry file entries were incorrect. It was trying to read information about solar distribution but got a vertex instead. Check that file and you will probably see that the number of vertices does not match or the number of surfaces does not match. It is normal for the last zone you entered to be shown in perspective after you have completed the click-on bitmap. Exit up to the next level in the menus and you should see all of the zones. Also, check to see if your version of the Cookbook is up to date. The latest one is dated November 2008. -Jon Hand ________________________________________ From: <a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Mostapha Sadeghipour [<a href="mailto:sadeghipour@gmail.com">sadeghipour@gmail.com</a>] Sent: 04 April 2009 13:33 To: <a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> Subject: [esp-r] ESP-r problemsin using the click on bitmap facility to define the zones <div><div></div><div class="h5"> Dear ESP-r Users, I want to define the zones using the clicking on grid points option. when I click "e" and then "save the zone data" this comment is appear: "Negative or zero zone volume detected. Vertex information maybe in error or surfaces incomplete." I'm almost sure that I selected the points correctly and on right direction, same as what is done in the cookbook page 57. But I also changed the direction to see if anything else happened? The result was the same! Although I can continue creating other zones, but when I exit from the click on facility only the last zone is appeared in the window. However the related items such as surface attributes, etc for this zone are editable,when I want to change to another zone, the program crashes and write this message: result of XReadBitmapFile 0 1063 787 15 15 get region is 0 330 1007 457 result of XReadBitmapFile 0 1063 787 15 15 get region is 0 330 1007 457 result of XReadBitmapFile 0 1063 787 15 15 get region is 0 330 1007 457 result of XReadBitmapFile 0 1063 787 15 15 get region is 0 330 1007 457 result of XReadBitmapFile 0 1063 787 15 15 get region is 0 330 1007 457 Fatal error: In ../zones/exam.geo expecting 4 items (insolation data) in... 0.00000 4.00000 0.00000 I use the esp-r 11.5 in UBUNTU. Any advices is appreciated, Best, Mostapha Sadeghipour </div></div></blockquote></div>