How to find troubled element from the Report?

[Anonymous]

Hi,
When going to 3D window from 2D Plan window I am getting the following Report window message:

Mac HD:Applications:Graphisoft:ArchiCAD 11ArchiCAD
Partition size : 4194288 K
Unused memory : 0 K
Unused in temporary folder : 207240.0 MB
Invalid polygon, self intersection or hole intersects boundary. (R04)
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Document name :
Processed : 337 walls 262 objects 15 columns 0 ncBeams
30 slabs 4 meshes 17 pitch roofs
Start time : Aug 9, 2007 4:00:03 PM
*** User Break ***
End time : Aug 9, 2007 4:00:21 PM
Elapsed time : 18 seconds
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Projection : Perspective
Eye position : 117.965 -34.6394 34.6257
Direction : -0.828479 0.278682 -0.485756
Distance : 30.7197 Angle : 82
Start time : Aug 9, 2007 4:00:21 PM
*** User Break ***
End time : Aug 9, 2007 4:00:21 PM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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How do I find the element in trouble?
Thanks,
Joseph

[James Murray]

That R04 is the ID of the unhappy element, likely a roof. You can find it with find and select. If there's more than one with that ID, you'll want to give all of those unique IDs, then get the report again to isolate it.

[Anonymous]

James wrote:
That R04 is the ID of the unhappy element, likely a roof. You can find it with find and select. If there's more than one with that ID, you'll want to give all of those unique IDs, then get the report again to isolate it.

Thanks a mil. it did it. Interesting enough that Find and Select is case sensitive when searching for an ID!?

James, I also visited your web site, it is one of THE kind person you are to create this site to help us in our design world.
Thanks,
Joseph

[James Murray]

Thank you very much, Joseph.

[James Murray]

Tip: Use an element schedule to list the roof IDs, and to edit the IDs to make them unique. Screenshots here.