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Degenerate surfaces in EnergyPlus

Hi,
There is one severe error "GetSurfaceData: There are 1 degenerate surfaces; Degenerate surfaces are those with number of sides < 3" in my EnergyPlus Output Errors file. However I took a look at the Text file and there was no surfaces with less than 4 vertices. I also tried using Output:Diagnostics,DisplayExtraWarnings to find the surface, but the surface name doesn't come up in the error file. The degenerate surface is often causing my simulation to crash.

I was wondering how I could resolve the issue.

Degenerate surfaces in EnergyPlus

Hi,
There is one severe error "GetSurfaceData: There are 1 degenerate surfaces; Degenerate surfaces are those with number of sides < 3" in my EnergyPlus Output Errors file. However I took a look at the Text file and there was no surfaces with less than 4 vertices. I also tried using Output:Diagnostics,DisplayExtraWarnings to find the surface, but the surface name doesn't come up in the error file. The degenerate surface is often causing my simulation to crash.

I was wondering how I could resolve the issue.