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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Subsurface error

   ** Warning ** Base surface does not surround subsurface (CHKSBS), Overlap Status=No-Overlap
   **   ~~~   **   The base surround errors occurred 1 times.
   **   ~~~   ** Surface "SURFACE 19" misses SubSurface "SUB SURFACE 3"
   ** Warning ** Base surface does not surround subsurface (CHKSBS), Overlap Status=No-Overlap
   **   ~~~   **   The base surround errors occurred 1 times.
   **   ~~~   ** Surface "SURFACE 7" misses SubSurface "SUB SURFACE 2"


But that's not the fatal error in your file (at least in the latest beta for V8.0)


--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "thevinyldropper" <thevinyldropper@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you Mostapha, I would appreciate that.  As far as I can tell, I have everything right in terms of the globalgeometry, but it could very well be something simple that I am overlooking.  I posted the idf file named JXDC4.idf on the site.  It is in Version 7.1, but I have the same problems if I convert to 7.2 as well.
> 
> Andrew 
> 
> --- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mostapha Sadeghipour <sadeghipour@> wrote:
> >
> > Do you want to share the .idf file so I can take a look.
> > 
> > The other possibility in case you have more than one sub-surface for SURFACE
> > 19 [which is probably is the case in your example since it called as SUB
> > SURFACE *3*] is that the total area of sub-surfaces is bigger than the area
> > of the base surface.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Mostapha
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 2:47 PM, <dru.crawley@> wrote:
> > 
> > > It means your door is either not in the plane of the or it is too big for
> > > the wall.  Doors and windows must be slightly smaller than the wall they
> > > are in.
>



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