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Error parsing IDF file

I'm interested in using BCVTB together with EnergyPlus for an upcoming project of mine. Therefore I tried running some of the examples for working with EnergyPlus supplied with BCVTB, but keep getting similar errors with all of them, along the lines of

** Severe  ** Line: 843 Index: 6 - Error parsing "FenestrationSurface:Detailed". Error in following line.    
** Severe  ** ~~~     17.588914871,0.01,    
** Severe  ** Line: 843 Index: 11 - "2.671" is not a valid Object Type.   
** Severe  ** Line: 859 Index: 6 - Error parsing "FenestrationSurface:Detailed". Error in following line.    
** Severe  ** ~~~     0.01,0,    
** Severe  ** Line: 859 Index: 11 - "2.671" is not a valid Object Type.

This leads me to believe there is some formatting error; however I cannot see anything wrong with the specified or surrounding lines. Since I am a new user, I cannot upload files. Therefore, the IDF and ERR files will be provided via the following pastebin links:

IDF file

ERR file

Error parsing IDF file

I'm interested in using BCVTB together with EnergyPlus for an upcoming project of mine. Therefore I tried running some of the examples for working with EnergyPlus supplied with BCVTB, but keep getting similar errors with all of them, along the lines of

** Severe  ** Line: 843 Index: 6 - Error parsing "FenestrationSurface:Detailed". Error in following line.    
** Severe  ** ~~~     17.588914871,0.01,    
** Severe  ** Line: 843 Index: 11 - "2.671" is not a valid Object Type.   
** Severe  ** Line: 859 Index: 6 - Error parsing "FenestrationSurface:Detailed". Error in following line.    
** Severe  ** ~~~     0.01,0,    
** Severe  ** Line: 859 Index: 11 - "2.671" is not a valid Object Type.

This leads me to believe there is some formatting error; however I cannot see anything wrong with the specified or surrounding lines. Since I am a new user, I cannot upload files. Therefore, the IDF and ERR files will be provided via the following pastebin links:

IDF file

ERR file

Error parsing IDF file

I'm interested in using BCVTB together with EnergyPlus for an upcoming project of mine. Therefore I tried running some of the examples for working with EnergyPlus supplied with BCVTB, but keep getting similar errors with all of them, along the lines of

** Severe  ** Line: 843 Index: 6 - Error parsing "FenestrationSurface:Detailed". Error in following line.    
** Severe  ** ~~~     17.588914871,0.01,    
** Severe  ** Line: 843 Index: 11 - "2.671" is not a valid Object Type.   
** Severe  ** Line: 859 Index: 6 - Error parsing "FenestrationSurface:Detailed". Error in following line.    
** Severe  ** ~~~     0.01,0,    
** Severe  ** Line: 859 Index: 11 - "2.671" is not a valid Object Type.

This leads me to believe there is some formatting error; however I cannot see anything wrong with the specified or surrounding lines. Since I am a new user, I cannot upload files. Therefore, the IDF and ERR files will be provided via the following pastebin links:

IDF file

ERR file

Edit: Seeing as the EnergyPlus version of the file does not match the version of EnergyPlus I use, I tried downloading a matching (older) EnergyPlus version. However, those were taken down for Windows for versions 8.6 and prior.

I've found a workaround by editing one of the pre-installed EnergyPlus model files to work for what I wanted to achieve, but am still curious about my errors, as the syntax for the erroring objects appears to remain unchanged between the two versions of EnergyPlus (8.0 and 9.2), judging from my Energy+.idd file.