The Zone is not fully enclosed
Hello. I keep receiving this warning below and the same subject I found on Unmethours did not help me. Warning * CalculateZoneVolume: The Zone="ENTIRE HOUSE" is not fully enclosed. To be fully enclosed, each edge of a surface must also be an edge on one other surface. * ~~~ * The zone volume was calculated using the floor area times ceiling height method where the floor and ceiling are the same except for the z-coordinates. * ~~~ * The surface "SOUTHWALLGROUNDFLOOR" has an edge that is either not an edge on another surface or is an edge on three or more surfaces: * ~~~ * Vertex start { 12.0000, 0.0000, 3.7000} * ~~~ * Vertex end { 0.0000, 0.0000, 3.7000} * ~~~ * The surface "NORTHWALLGROUNDFLOOR" has an edge that is either not an edge on another surface or is an edge on three or more surfaces: * ~~~ * Vertex start { 0.0000, 7.0000, 3.7000} * ~~~ * Vertex end { 12.0000, 7.0000, 3.7000} * ~~~ * The surface "EASTWALLGROUNDFLOOR" has an edge that is either not an edge on another surface or is an edge on three or more surfaces: * ~~~ * Vertex start { 12.0000, 7.0000, 3.7000} * ~~~ * Vertex end { 12.0000, 0.0000, 3.7000} * ~~~ * The surface "WESTWALLGROUNDFLOOR" has an edge that is either not an edge on another surface or is an edge on three or more surfaces: * ~~~ * Vertex start { 0.0000, 0.0000, 3.7000} * ~~~ ** Vertex end { 0.0000, 7.0000, 3.7000}
I have a basement and two above-grade floors (residential) and a gable. I have three zones: basement, gable, and other spaces are defined as one zone. I sketched the geometry in Sketchup. I sketched different houses in terms of area ( but same zoning strategy) and the warning is still there for all of them. I use "Euclid" plugin. I should mention that the four lines that are mentioned in the warning message appeared in all of the geometries that I tested but there is more vertice mentioned in the warning in some geometric like below. I checked the vertices in SketchUp and E+ several times but they seem correct. I really cannot figure it out. Also, I was wondering why I don't have the same issue with the upper-floor ceiling. Why do I just have this issue in the Groundfloor ceiling (upperfloor Floor)? The most confusing thing is that I have this warning for the basement's walls in one model and the other one is fine with the vertices of the walls. I did surface matching in SketchUp and also checked the boundary conditions in E+ and all seem fine.
* Warning * CalculateZoneVolume: The Zone="BASEMENT:UTILITYROOM" is not fully enclosed. To be fully enclosed, each edge of a surface must also be an edge on one other surface. * ~~~ * The zone volume was calculated using the floor area times ceiling height method where the floor and ceiling are the same except for the z-coordinates. * ~~~ * The surface "SOUTHUPPERWALLBASEMENT" has an edge that is either not an edge on another surface or is an edge on three or more ...
These are tricky issues to try to resolve. If you are confident in the geometry, you can ignore it since it is just a warning. If you want to help diagnosing the issue, I think you will have to share the input file somewhere so that we can take a look at it.
I would be grateful if you could take a look. How can I share the idf?
"How can I share the idf?" ... post a link to the (publicly-shared) IDF, e.g. Google Drive.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnW9Bg_LTjtEbcVYx...