<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><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 class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">1) I have the following Error Message: "</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">A model with inconsistent surface topology attributes </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">might fail when simulated. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">F</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">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 lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">- In the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">model management option I have loaded a copied version of the
construction database.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">- I then deleted unnecessary constructions in the database. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">- This change cause many contiguity errors so I used the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> “Clear ALL CONTIGUITY” option and then automatically re-created (several times) all the connection / contiguity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">- The connections in the "cnn" file looks correct but ESP-r threw up a long list of many "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Duplicates Surfaces <> master list" and problems with the "Zone surface <> master list" etc... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><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 style="position:fixed"></div>
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