[TRNSYS-users] Trnsys 17 - GenOpt

Jeff Thornton thornton at tess-inc.com
Fri Aug 29 07:31:27 PDT 2014


Check the paths to all of your external files.  The GenOpt program moves the decks to a temporary directory and if you have relative paths in your project, and not the full path location, the program will not be able to find the files.

Jeff Thornton
TESS

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> On Aug 29, 2014, at 8:07 AM, Ines Khalifa <khalifa_ines at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> 
> Amr,
> 
> Thank you for your quick answer.
> When running GenOpt, four folders are created named "tmp-genopt-run-1 / 2 / 3 / 4", into each one, there is a log file (here below).
> As you can see, there is no error message in the log file, what i have attached at first time was the pop message of the error.
> 
> Ines.
> 
> 
>             TRNSYS - the TRaNsient SYstem Simulation program
> 
>    The Solar Energy Lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
> Le Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, Sophia Antipolis, France
>            Transsolar Energietechnik GmBH, Stuttgart, Germany
>         Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC, Madison Wisconsin, USA
> 
>                            Release 17.00.0019
> 
> Simulation log for: "C:\Trnsys17\Examples\genopt-type56--3\tmp-genopt-run-2\GenOptRun.dck"
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : The TRNSYS Executable (TRNExe.exe) and main DLL (TRNDll.dll) are located in "C:\Trnsys17\Exe"
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     :   208
>     TRNSYS Message     75 : The Type referenced below requires descriptors instead of initial values.
>     Reported information  : Type 208
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     :   535
>     TRNSYS Message     75 : The Type referenced below requires descriptors instead of initial values.
>     Reported information  : Type 535
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     :   580
>     TRNSYS Message     76 : The following Type has been identified as allowing the unit specifications (kg/h for example) after the input specifications and intial values for the inputs.  The critical parameter number, and the value of this critical parameter that indicates that the units will be supplied is also listed.  This information was retrieved from the VarUnits.dat file loacted in the \Exe directory of your TRNSYS 16 installation.
>     Reported information  : Type 580, Critical Parameter 11, Parameter Value 1
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     :   580
>     TRNSYS Message     88 : The following Type has been identified as allowing FORMAT statements.  This information was retrieved from the Formats.dat file loacted in the \Exe directory of your TRNSYS 16 installation.
>     Reported information  : Type 580
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     TRNSYS Message     90 : TRNDll.dll is compiled in release mode. External DLLs will be loaded from the .\UserLib\ReleaseDLLs\ directory.
>     Reported information  : Not available
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : The following Types were loaded from TRNDll.dll: Type34, Type28, Type65, Type56, Type69, Type109, Type33
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : "FileReader.dll" was found but did not contain any components from the input file.
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : "type127.dll" was found but did not contain any components from the input file.
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : "Type157_demo_release.dll" was found but did not contain any components from the input file.
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : "Type76Lib.dll" was found but did not contain any components from the input file.
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : "type79-W.dll" was found but did not contain any components from the input file.
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : "Type79Lib.dll" was found but did not contain any components from the input file.
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : "Type82Lib.dll" was found but did not contain any components from the input file.
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     Message               : "Type98Lib.dll" was found but did not contain any components from the input file.
>  
> *** Notice at time        :         0.000000
>     Generated by Unit     : Not applicable or not available
>     Generated by Type     : Not applicable or not available
>     TRNSYS Message    199 : TRNSYS found at least one user DLL in the UserLib directory. (Note: Only DLL's including Types that are used in the simulation are loaded)
>     Reported information  : 0 user DLLs were loaded after searching in "C:\Trnsys17\UserLib\ReleaseDLLs"
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:45:07 +0200
> From: amr.alaaeldin at polimi.it
> To: trnsys-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> CC: trnsys-users at cae.wisc.edu
> Subject: Re: [TRNSYS-users] Trnsys 17 - GenOpt
> 
> Dear Ines,
> I have only worked with GenOpt + Trnsys 16... I heard that the steps are the same, but I'm not sure...
> 
> Where did you get this error message from? I don't think I ever saw such an error message...
> 
> What I know is that you see the errors in a file called "Genopt.log"... Actually it might have a different name, but the extension is ".log".
> If you open this file you can see the error... 
> 
> Can you please check for that file and let me know if you found it and if the error is more clear?
> 
> Best of luck,
> Amr
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Ines Khalifa <khalifa_ines at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to reproduce the example of the document "Using GenOpt with Trnsys 16 and Type56" using Trnsys 17. I set the geometry mode at Manual since the window height have to be modified by GenOpt. I get the Error messages below. 
> Any idea about what can be the source of the error ?
> 
> Ines
> 
> 
> 
> 
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