Surface does not exist error
I am trying to model a dorm in Sketchup/OpenStudio, and I got the first two floors done. Now, when I open my OSM I get hundreds of errors, "Surface # : The space referenced by this surface does not exist, it cannot be drawn". I have only seen one other question similar to this and it required digging into code and deleting the surface. I am a student, and not to savvy with opening script files and sifting through them. Does anyone know if these errors can be ignored? Or how to get rid of them? I tried running a diagnostics thing and deleting the surfaces, but nothing got deleted and they still pop up. Any information on how to get rid of these, or if I can ignore them, would be awesome! Thanks!
What portion of your model is rendered in SketchUp? Are the majority of spaces missing or just one or two? Do you know what happened that caused these spaces to go missing? I am not aware of any way to create orphan surfaces through the GUIs (although it might now be possible in grid view). Did you edit the text files by hand?
I just confirmed that orphaned surfaces do not show up in grid view in the OpenStudio Application so there is no way to repair these surfaces using that.
It is only one surface. I don't know how to get rid of it. I do not know what to do about it.
Did you happen to use the SketchUp undo command while working on your model? OpenStudio does not track SketchUp's undo command well so this is a likely cause of any model corruption.