<HTML><BODY>Hi Ian<br /><br />if you have a grep utility on windows, search your .geo files for the offending "Another". <br /><br />grep -ni "Another" *.geo<br /><br />Somewhere there will be a surface defined with Another in the .geo but not in .cnn.<br /><br />Best<br />Achim<br /><br />--------- Original-Nachricht --------<br /> Von: "Ian McCall" <ijmccall@yahoo.com><br /> An: "ESP-r" <esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk><br /> Betreff: [esp-r] "Found surface attribute... ANOTHER" and Changing Names for Constructions<br /> Datum: 22/07/10 16:42<br /> <br /> <!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --><div style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello ESP-r,</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif"
class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span">1) I have the following Error Message: "</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span">A model with inconsistent surface topology attributes </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span">might fail when simulated. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span">F</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span">ound surface attribute... ANOTHER" error message appears when </span></span>I activate the "simulation".</span></div><div><br
/></div><div>Background: </div><div>I am working with an apartment building (currently 15 zones) designed in ESP-r 11.9 windows native version.</div><div> </div><div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>- In the </span><span>model management option I have loaded a copied version of the construction database.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>- I then deleted unnecessary constructions in the database. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>- This change cause many contiguity errors so I used the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span"> “Clear ALL CONTIGUITY” option and then automatically re-created (several times) all the connection / contiguity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span">- The connections in the "cnn" file looks correct but ESP-r threw up a long list of many "</span><span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span">Duplicates Surfaces <> master list" and problems with the "Zone surface <> master list" etc... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif" class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal">- So, I went in the individual zones and manually re-re-created the all the boundaries "surface in another zone" connections / contiguities that ESP-r automatically created. This manual intervention has eliminated the list of errors except for the one listed above. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">I can run the simulation without any further apparent errors. Any ideas of how to eliminate this "Found surface attribute... ANOTHER" error? I have looked at the QA report but I do not see anything that would cause this error. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">2)
Changing Names for Construction Geometries </p><p class="MsoNormal">- I created a new wall construction of pure concrete called “IntnaWallCav” in the constructions database. I assigned this construction to the walls in my model. For some unknown reason when I now exit the respective zone this walls at times change to a construction called “rete”. There is no item in the construction database called “rete”. The thermal properties and construction of “IntnaWallCav” and “rete” are exactly the same. Does ESP-r change the construction name “IntnaWallCav” to “rete” because “IntnaWallCav” is too long? Any other ideas? </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></span></p></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br /></div><div>Ian</div><div><br /></div><div>Ecole des Mines de Nantes</div> </div><br /> <br /> <br /> <h!
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