AECOsim Building Designer Help

Error Report tab

Contains controls used to view the simulation error report. This Error Report tab is very important to every simulation run. All warnings, errors, etc that occur during the simulation run appear in this report.



SettingDescription
Error report (page ...) Located in the left panel of the Error Report tab, Error report (page ...) can be selected to display error report pages in the data display panel on the right side of the Error Report tab.
EnergyPlus error ouput: Contains a listing of all warnings and errors that occurred during the simulation.
  • Program Version — The first line of the error report shows the current version of EnergyPlus and the version of the EnergyPlus Input Data Dictionary file (*.idd) that was used in the simulation. The idd file is a listing of every available simulation input. If an input is not listed in the idd file, then it is not processed.
  • Error Level — The following table illustrates the three levels of errors that occur in the Error report tab Note: If an error line begins with “~~~”, it is a continuation of the previous error report line.
    Error level Action
    Warning Take note
    Severe Should fix
    Fatal Program will abort
  • Errors examples — Some errors you may encounter are:
    • “Schedule not found” – Objects that have schedules in their fields must have a schedule inputted. To leave it blank results in a severe error that terminates the simulation run.
    • “Schedule [Schedule name] has missing days” – Schedule periods in Simulation must fill an entire year period. If a full year is not specified, the error is issued.
    • “Zone name in [internal gain] statement not found” – If a statement specifies a zone name as part of its field, it cannot be left blank.