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Useless Error Message

Robert Nichols
Advocate

I've seen this complaint in the forums (fora?) going years back. When generating a 3D view, in a few projects I get an "Errors occurred during the last operation" (see attached screenshot). That's it. No context. Nothing in the session report. I have no idea if critical something is missing, if I've got bad GDL, missing texture.jpg, etc. Why is this so hard to fix? Periodically I try to weed through embedded libraries, etc. looking for potential performance bottlenecks. Seems quite like that the identified "error" could yield a performance problem, but no suggestion how to fix it!!!

Mac Studio, 32gb ram, ArchiCAD v26 (Apple Silicon) MacOS 13
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Solution

In the Work Environment > User Preference Schemes > Model Rebuild Options.

 

BarryKelly_0-1645288044606.png

 

To access the report use File menu > Info > Session Report.

 

Barry.

 

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

I don't know if this will help get rid of the particular error (as you say no way of knowing what it is about).

But try the 'Open & Repair' option when you open a file from the FILE menu.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
DGSketcher
Legend

Which will probably give an equally unsettling advisory that things have been fixed or removed without identifying them... 🙄

Apple iMac Intel i9 / macOS Sonoma / AC27UKI (most recent builds.. if they work)

I you set the reporting to maximum detail you will see the cause of the error - with specific ID of the offending element that you can then search for.

@JeffB Always learning in AC. How do you set the reporting to maximum detail?

Apple iMac Intel i9 / macOS Sonoma / AC27UKI (most recent builds.. if they work)
Solution

In the Work Environment > User Preference Schemes > Model Rebuild Options.

 

BarryKelly_0-1645288044606.png

 

To access the report use File menu > Info > Session Report.

 

Barry.

 

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Barry,

 

Thanks a million for this tip. I fixed my problematic GDL code about 10 minutes after reading your comment above. The GDL code editor blessed the code, but would still cough up an error that showed up in Session Report once detail level was set to high. 

Mac Studio, 32gb ram, ArchiCAD v26 (Apple Silicon) MacOS 13

Actually it was @JeffB that suggested the tip.

I just showed where it was.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Oh right. I wonder if @JeffB is the Jeff B I used to work for, right down the street from my current studio???

Mac Studio, 32gb ram, ArchiCAD v26 (Apple Silicon) MacOS 13

Yep! That's me! Hello Robert 😀