SPOT Users Forum Google Group

Potential Bug

anoriande...@gmail.com (Austin Clark) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:57:15 UT

One of my users successfully completed one project using Spot 4.2 on Excel
2007 (fully updated) on Windows XP SP3 (fully updated, x86). Subsequent
projects fail with the following errors:
Followed by this:
I can supply the original inputs as well as an archive of the project
folder if needed.
Returning to the initial, successful project and modifying any value

Bug in Spot 4.22 + Windows 7 (64 Bit) + MS Office 2010 (german)

planungsbuero.min...@googlemail.com (Mario) — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:50:21 UT

Hello folks,

I'm discovering the same problem than Frank in his previous post,
except that I'm already using Office 2010 (Home & Business).
I also tried the 4.22 offered for download in the foru, with the same
result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<recoveryLog xmlns="[link]

Surrounding buildings in SPOT?

vaibhav.energyarchit...@gmail.com (Vaibhav Jain) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:36:40 UT

Hello everyone,

I am a very new user of SPOT. Haven't ran any simulation yet. I have a
simple question; of which I couldn't find any straight forward answer in
documentation.

Can surrounding buildings be modeled in SPOT?

Thank you!

Vaibhav Jain
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Bug with: SPOT + Windows 7 (64 bits) + Excel 2007 (french)

franck...@hotmail.com (Franck) — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:26:58 UT

Hi,

When I launch SPOT, I obtain the following error message (in french, but I
translate it for you):

*Excel found unreadable content in 'SPOTv4.2.xltm'. Do you want to recover
the contents? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes".*

Then I click Yes and receive the following recovery report:

Exterior Overhang

j.p.tong...@gmail.com (J) — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:27:51 UT

Is there any way to place more than 2 exterior overhangs? we wanted to
simulate external louvers in front of the windows.

Thanks,

IES run time error

j.p.tong...@gmail.com (J) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:43:47 UT

Hello ALL,

We have been unable to convert and add luminaires using IES files.
When SPOT tries to do the conversion the macro comes back with a
runtime error. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this?
We running it on Windows 7 and Excel 2007.

Thanks,

Ceiling

child...@voicenet.com (JChilders) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:00:33 UT

Is a provision for "sloping ceilings" in the works?

Thanks,

Jerry

Abort at Photosensor Analysis

child...@voicenet.com (JChilders) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:30:26 UT

In a current project analysis, the Excel project file aborts the
computation process and advises that there is an error relatiing to
exceeding limits. An option is offered to debug or end. If I select
debug, a editor is opended that displays programming code. If I close
the editor, I am returnded back to the choice to end or debug. If I

Images: View Sections vs Interactive view

child...@voicenet.com (JChilders) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:04:19 UT

On the "Final Calculations" page, the images produced with the "View
Sections" are substantially darker than that created by the
"Interactive View". Please advise.

Tubular Daylight Devices

child...@voicenet.com (JChilders) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:59:15 UT

It would be helpful to have an option for lense selection for the
TDD's. Some of the commercial devices have options for optics to
improve light distribution across a broad area.

Photosensor Generator

child...@voicenet.com (JChilders) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:51:17 UT

When the "DOS Program window" is running, the message "No electric
lights are found" occurs for each zone for electric lighting.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Jerry

CHPS Reports

child...@voicenet.com (JChilders) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:49:01 UT

What is the "Diffuse Glazing (R3)" prerequisite based on?

Where can I find the criteria for the CHPS reports defined?

Thanks,

Jerry

Intrepretation of Reports

child...@voicenet.com (JChilders) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:09:17 UT

I have questions regarding some of the reports:

1. CHPS(CA)2006-Single Point in Time-Daylighting.
The model included solar control device for windows and tubular
daylight devices.
The prerequisite checks pass, i.e daylight controls are implented. In
the summary square,
"Avg Illumination: 56 fc",

Potential Bug

child...@voicenet.com (JChilders) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:00:36 UT

I am trying to use the SPOT program for simulation.

I am receiving errors near the end of the process. In th photosensor
Analyzer section. I receive an error note regarding band width. "SPOT-
Input Error The current signal bandwidth is too small. Minimum
bandwidth for the first controlled zone: 13

Using spot for LEED Daylight modelling

smdigiu...@gmail.com (susandigi) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:25 UT

HI,
Has anyone successfully used this for LEED-NC 2009 Daylight modelling?