User Defined Zone - Crashes

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Hello All,

I've created zones for a building and now I've set out to rename each zone
according to the space that it serves. It seems that on certain zones I
click to rename, eQUEST freezes up and must be forced to close. Looks like
it does this mostly on the perimeter zones as I haven't had this problem
with interior spaces.

Has anyone else run into this issue? Is this an issue with the program or
could it be the need for more RAM or maybe a conflict with my video card?

Computer Details:
lenovo
Intel Core 2 Duo vPro, E8400 @ 3.00 GHz
Windows XP Professional, v 2002
Service Pack 3
3GB RAM
Virtual Memory @ 4092 MB
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
Radmin Mirror Driver V3 (not sure what that is)

Thanks,

Anthony

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Kim,

I did as you suggested and checked my vertices with each space as well as the footprint. I fixed the couple I found that were off, saved and restarted eQUEST. Even after all of that the program still froze when trying to rename zones. I also had an issue where adding the roof completely crashed and closed the program. Maybe using an older version will help so I'm going to try that next. Right now I'm using version 3-64.

Thanks,

Anthony Allgood

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Anthony,

If you are going to use the detailed edit mode I would recommend
renaming the spaces and zones then. I have not heard of eQUEST freezing
when you are in the detailed edit mode. When you are in the detailed
edit mode you will want to make sure that you do not have exterior walls
when you want interior walls. As Kim mentioned, there may be a problem
with the geometry of the model.

Good luck,

Otto

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All,

I have found a workaround to eQUEST freezing while renaming zones in the Design Wizard.

I found that if I select a zone that doesn't freeze the program, I can use the TAB key to cycle through the rest of the zones and rename accordingly. I used the TAB key to do this, saved, then went back to see if I could edit the space just by clicking on its title and it froze again. This workaround method seems to work well when manually clicking the zone will not. Thanks to everyone who responded with suggestions.

As a side note, I discovered that if you inadvertently leave the zone name blank and try to come back to it, you won't be able to name it again - either through the TAB cycle through method or clicking on the zone. I had to delete the zone and remake it.

Thanks,

Anthony Allgood

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