Help w/ GDL Object Error Message

[Anonymous]

I am using AC9 SE Library and an getting the repetitive error message below when I Elevate or model..

I think it might be something dealing with an int door.

Can anyone help or can I reset the original default parameters of objects if they are in use in a file.

Gosh... I am such a newbie...

Error Message as follows:

Projection : Custom axonometry
Camera azimuth : 214.949
Start time : 3/3/2006 9:57:14 AM
End time : 3/3/2006 9:57:14 AM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Beginning generation of Section/Elevation:
Start time : 3/3/2006 10:18:33 AM
Polygon is degenerated.
at line 277 of file wa_frame_us_10.gsm.
Polygon is degenerated.
at line 277 of file wa_frame_us_10.gsm.
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Document name : Erickson Proposed.pln
Processed : 96 walls 74 objects 5 columns 0 ncBeams
Start time : 3/3/2006 10:18:33 AM
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:06 AM
Elapsed time : 33 seconds
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Creating section
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:06 AM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Projection : Side view
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:06 AM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
Hidden line removal (analytic)
Start time : 3/3/2006 10:19:06 AM
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:06 AM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Hidden polygon removal
Sun direction : vertical 45.0001 horizontal 315
Start time : 3/3/2006 10:19:06 AM
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:06 AM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Finished generation of Section/Elevation.
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:07 AM
Elapsed time : 34 seconds
Beginning generation of Section/Elevation:
Start time : 3/3/2006 10:19:24 AM
Polygon is degenerated.
at line 277 of file wa_frame_us_10.gsm.
Polygon is degenerated.
at line 277 of file wa_frame_us_10.gsm.
Polygon is degenerated.
at line 277 of file wa_frame_us_10.gsm.
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Document name : Erickson Proposed.pln
Processed : 0 walls 4 objects 0 columns 0 ncBeams
Start time : 3/3/2006 10:19:24 AM
*** User Break ***
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:44 AM
Elapsed time : 20 seconds
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Creating section
*** User Break ***
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:44 AM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Projection : Side view
*** User Break ***
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:44 AM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
Finished generation of Section/Elevation.
End time : 3/3/2006 10:19:45 AM
Elapsed time : 21 seconds

[TomWaltz]

Usually a problem like this occurs when you set the size of something like a door frame or a panel size to 0.

If you cannot figure out what the problematic parameter is, the way to re-set an object to its defaults is to:
1) select the object
2) open its Settings Menu
3) select any other object in the left-hand Object Selector side of the menu.
4) select your original object in the Selector.

Hopefully one of these helps

[Anonymous]

This problem appears to be a bug in the scripting. I have been running into it quite a bit and it is very annoying.

I haven't had time to track down the offending settings in the primary part (door or window) but the error comes from a part of the macro script that only runs in elevation (this error should not be appearing in 3D views).

There should be parameter limits and error checking code to prevent this sort of thing but it can be very difficult to this thoroughly in complex parts with macro calls.

I'll see if I can figure out the problem and post it back here when I get the chance. Hopefully it can be traced to a simple setting adjustment. (Fixing third party code is a bad idea and not something I want to get into.)

[Anonymous]

Josh, You could read up on the latest post about the SE Library. It is not pretty.

Especially as a newbie, I would recommend using the Standard AC9 Library. The Se has cause way too many heart-aches, and even the current Library release is confessed by Graphisoft to be "Buggy". Yet I think with AC 10 coming out soon they do not seem willing to give us an Updated SE Library. So go for the Standard Library for now and life will be much better.