<div dir="ltr">Dear all<br><br>I am trying to create a predefined entity "standing_man" and save it in predefined.db1 for later use.<br><br>So I inserted a new category named "people" after the existing category "lighting":<br><br>*Category,people,People (visual+mass)<br> <br>and put the following code at the end of predefined.db1 just before "*End_category" line<br><br>*item,standing_man,standing man 720x160x1760mm (+y) # tag name menu entry<br>*incat,people<br>*includes,visual,mass<br>*sourced,Dimensions for a typical adult man.<br>*origin,0.0,0.0,0.0<br>*bounding_box,0.720,0.160,1.76<br>*Text<br>Adult standing man facing north (+y).<br>*End_text<br># <br>*vertex,0.160,0.160,0.800 # 1<br>*vertex,0.160,0.160,1.560 # 2<br>*vertex,0.560,0.160,1.560 # 3<br>*vertex,0.560,0.160,0.800 # 4<br># <br>*mass,seat,door,OPAQUE,4,1,2,3,4 # 1<br>*mass,seat_,door,OPAQUE,4,2,1,4,3 # 2<br># <br>*vis,0.260,0.000,1.560,0.200,0.160,0.200,0.000,1.00,head,steel_pl_3mm # visual 1<br>*vis,0.160,0.000,0.800,0.400,0.160,0.760,0.000,1.00,trunk,steel_pl_3mm # visual 2<br>*vis,0.560,0.000,0.800,0.160,0.160,0.760,0.000,1.00,r_arm,steel_pl_3mm # visual 3<br>*vis,0.000,0.000,0.800,0.160,0.160,0.760,0.000,1.00,l_arm,steel_pl_3mm # visual 4<br>*vis,0.400,0.000,0.000,0.160,0.160,0.800,0.000,1.00,r_leg,door # visual 5<br>*vis,0.160,0.000,0.000,0.160,0.160,0.800,0.000,1.00,l_leg,door # visual 6<br>#<br>*end_item<br><br>Note that materials still have to be changed to match the real entity.<br><br>The problem I am facing is that ESP-r changes "a Office furniture (visual+mass)" in the "Predefined categories" menu to "a standing_manture (visual+mass)", looking as if it had merged the name of new item with the description of first category "Office furniture (visual+mass)". Furthermore, clicking in "a standing_manture (visual+mass)", ESP-r changes "a standard swivel office chair" in the "Available predefined object" menu to "a people vel office chair" (the blank spaces seem to be the complement of "people" to 12 char length string). By the way, the problem spreads to the subsequent categories and items as new items are created in the database.<br><br>What am I missing? Any help will be appreciated.<br><br>Best regards.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Clodoaldo.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Prof. Clodoaldo de O. Carvalho Filho, Dr.</b><br></div><span>Universidade Federal do Ceará</span><br>Depto. de Engenharia Mecânica<br></div>Lab. de Eficiência Energética no Conforto Ambiental - Coordenador<br></div>ASHRAE Fortaleza Student Branch - Advisor<br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>