Plugin and diagnostic script not catch all degenerate surfaces

[DavidGoldwasser]

@macumber I'll look into this, but just thought I'd cc you. I'll run the "DisplayExtraWarnings" to find out more. I hit this on the calibration model I built from Scratch. There are no warnings when I open the model in the plugin, and when I run the new diagnostic script that specially looks for surfaces with less than 3 vertices it doesn't find any problems.

** Severe ** GetSurfaceData: There are 5 degenerate surfaces; Degenerate surfaces are those with number of sides < 3.
** ~~~ ** These surfaces should be deleted.
** ~~~ ** For explicit details on each problem surface, use Output:Diagnostics,DisplayExtraWarnings;

[macumber]

It seems weird that E+ would handle this model differently between runs. Are you sure the same IDF caused different results?

[DavidGoldwasser]

Dan, I assume that comment is about #600 ? At any rate looks like diagnostic script just checks base and sub surafces for small surfaces and surfaces with less than 3 vertices. I should extend it for interior partition and shading. Also my small test is just are sides than 0.1 m^2. I should try to match what E+ does which is based on side less than 0.01M (thanks @rraustad).

Here is issue on this model.

** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[2.21528E-004], Surface=SHADING SURFACE 71
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[2.21528E-004], Surface=Mir-SHADING SURFACE 71
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[2.21528E-004], Surface=SHADING SURFACE 74
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[2.21528E-004], Surface=Mir-SHADING SURFACE 74
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[1.73446E-004], Surface=SHADING SURFACE 78
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[1.73446E-004], Surface=Mir-SHADING SURFACE 78
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[1.73446E-004], Surface=SHADING SURFACE 88
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[1.73446E-004], Surface=Mir-SHADING SURFACE 88
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[2.76041E-004], Surface=SHADING SURFACE 81
** Warning ** GetSurfaceData: Very small surface area[2.76041E-004], Surface=Mir-SHADING SURFACE 81

[macumber]

Elizabeth Gillmor also reported that the diagnostic script does not fix errors for shading surfaces

@asparke2 FYI

[tijcolem]

This issue has been moved to the OpenStudio Sketchup Repository - openstudiocoalition/openstudio-sketchup-plugin#37