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It's a little of both. The error message you get is likely due to a problem with your model, but the message is pretty lame and unhelpful as a diagnostic tool. Sorry about that! It would be helpful to see your "stdout" and "stderr" log files from the Radiance run, which are in the "1-Ruby-0" directory inside your model's companion directory. Can you post them someplace, or email them to me directly?
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It's a little of both. The error message you get is likely due to a problem with your model, but the message is pretty lame and unhelpful as a diagnostic tool. Sorry about that! It would be helpful to see your "stdout" and "stderr" log files from the Radiance run, which are in the "1-Ruby-0" directory inside your model's companion directory. Can you post them someplace, or email them to me directly?
Update1 (2015.04.16): Thanks for the files @altamar, "unfortunately", your model ran fine for me. Looking at your log file again, the Radiance version reported is 4.1a, looking like a Diva/Daysim build by Alstan:
RADIANCE 4.1a lastmod Tue Nov 09 13:21:50 2010 by ajakubiec on PDA-JAKUBIEC
Sounds like even though you have installed a couple of the NREL Radiance packages on your system, OpenStudio is still using an older install. In the OpenStudio menu, go to Preferences...Show Tools and look at what the RunManager Preferences dialog shows you for the Radiance tool(s):
Ideally you should only have one entry for Radiance in this list, and the path should be to the most recent NREL version you have on your system (4.3.a.2 is recommended for Windows users at the moment). Do not worry about the major/minor/build entries in this dialog for Radiance. Just make sure there is one entry for Radiance, and that the path points to your 4.3.a.2 installation. OpenStudio will set the system variables correctly from there, for your OpenStudio-Radiance runs. Set that up, and run it again and let us know how you make out.
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It's a little of both. The error message you get is likely due to a problem with your model, but the message is pretty lame and unhelpful as a diagnostic tool. Sorry about that! It would be helpful to see your "stdout" and "stderr" log files from the Radiance run, which are in the "1-Ruby-0" directory inside your model's companion directory. Can you post them someplace, or email them to me directly?
Update1 (2015.04.16): Thanks for the files @altamar, "unfortunately", your model ran fine for me. Looking at your log file again, the Radiance version reported is 4.1a, looking like a Diva/Daysim build by Alstan:
RADIANCE 4.1a lastmod Tue Nov 09 13:21:50 2010 by ajakubiec on PDA-JAKUBIEC
Sounds like even though you have installed a couple of the NREL Radiance packages on your system, OpenStudio is still using an older install. In the OpenStudio menu, go to Preferences...Show Tools and look at what the RunManager Preferences dialog shows you for the Radiance tool(s):
Ideally you should only have one entry for Radiance in this list, and the path should be to the most recent NREL version you have on your system (4.3.a.2 (4.3.a.2 is recommended for Windows users at the moment). Do not worry about the major/minor/build entries in this dialog for Radiance. Just make sure there is one entry for Radiance, and that the path points to your 4.3.a.2 installation. OpenStudio will set the system variables correctly from there, for your OpenStudio-Radiance runs. Set that up, and run it again and let us know how you make out.
