EP9.0.1 crashes when external shading is imported from file

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Thanks a lot for the answer Michael. This clarifies a lot. The "This file contains external shading fractions for all shading surfaces of all zones." is contained in the shaded fraction schedules report file generated by EP and I was assuming the output file = input file.

However, I do have two followup questions:

1) You state "a full year of data" must be present. Does this mean it has to come as 8760 hourly values regardless of timestep and shadow calculation frequency settings? Or should the file match the shaded fraction schedules report that outputs also sub-hourly time steps and only report the days calculated if shadow calculation frequency is greater than 1.

2) What about the diffuse part of the calculation. Is there a way to enter shaded fractions or view-factors between surfaces and the sky patches?

Many thanks in advance for your insights. Tim

1. My understanding of the current implementation is that it expects 8760 hourly values.
2. No.