[Equest-users] New Model Invalid Error

Garrett Elder glelder89 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 12:20:58 PST 2012


Thanks! That worked great I had no idea that eQuest had a compatibility
function. By any chance have you ran into an error after changing your
layer by layer construction and get a error saying "symbol previously
undefined"

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:33 AM, R B <slv3sat at gmail.com> wrote:

> You should change the compatibility mode on equest. Right click on the
> program icon and you will get a properties window. Under compatibility tab,
> you can set it to windows XP. The error will go away.
> Note that I have not been able to get the economizer to work the regular
> way in this mode. I have to use the min air schedule of 0.001 to get the
> economizer to work.
> -Rohini
>
>  On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Garrett Elder <glelder89 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>> I have created a new model and stacked shells on top of one another to
>> create a 13 story building. I have no warnings or errors when I finish as I
>> leave the wizards. When I re-enter the wizards and change my roof, wall, or
>> floor constructions I get an invalid arguement, but I can close and re-open
>> with no problems. I know this usually means there is a small error that the
>> program is not actually picking up, but I do not know where to start
>> looking for this problem. Or could I just ignore this invalid arguement
>> because I can still run the simulation and get results. I've read in the
>> archives about this topic and they are helpful in explain it could be the
>> roof because my shells are stacked. Could I fix this by unstacking my
>> shells and have them beside eachother all in the model and defining them
>> individually, would this give the same results since the same area would be
>> difined and my exporsures would be defined either as exposed or adibatic.
>> That idea may be a little far out there but at this point I'm willing to
>> try just about anything to fix this.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Garrett
>>
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