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[EnergyPlus_Support] Non-planar surfaces warnings

Hi All,

Im running a simulation for daylighting purposes and I have a bunch of several ShadingDetailed surfaces. When simulation is done I get many warnings regarding non-planar surfaces ... something like:
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 ** Warning ** Possible non-planar surface:"SHADING DEVICE2", Max "out of line"=7.97114E-003 at Vertex # 1
   ** Warning ** Possible non-planar surface:"SHADING DEVICE3", Max "out of line"=2.00522E-003 at Vertex # 2
   ** Warning ** Possible non-planar surface:"SHADING DEVICE5", Max "out of line"=3.25983E-003 at Vertex # 1
   ** Warning ** Possible non-planar surface:"SHADING DEVICE8", Max "out of line"=3.25983E-003 at Vertex # 1
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There are 75 warnings like that in total. I added an extra warnings output and It says something like
** Warning ** Too many vertices [>=12] in a shadow overlap
   **   ~~~   ** Overlapping figure=Mir-SHADING DEVICE42, Surface Class=[Shading]
   **   ~~~   **   This error occurred 1 times.
   **   ~~~   ** Figure being Overlapped=Mir-SHADING DEVICE84, Surface Class=[Shading]

When I look at the dxf generated, the geometry looks good, although overall. Do you thing is this something I should worry about or I can ignore it? Is there a way maybe to reduce tolerance for non planar surface to be accepted?

Giulio




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