Checking a Project for Errors

While working on a project, you can make some errors so that may make it impossible to conduct evacuation or fire dynamics simulation or may lead to unreliable simulation results and to an incorrect fire risk evaluation.

Since evacuation and fire dynamics simulation takes a long time, it is preferable to detect errors before running a simulation, so that you can avoid running another simulation after correcting all the errors.

Use a specific tool to check your project for errors.

For this, click the button on the control panel. Additionally, you can automatically check the scenario before running evacuation or fire dynamics simulation. For more information, see General Settings.

The application checks scenario for critical and potential errors. If no errors are detected, the application displays the following message:

If errors are detected, the application displays corresponding messages at the bottom of the window:

All checks that can be performed, errors and inaccuracies, that they detect, can be classified in several ways.

By Impact to Evacuation and Fire Dynamics Simulation:

1. Fire dynamics simulation checks. They allow you to identify errors and inaccuracies that affect the simulation of fire dynamics.
2. Evacuation simulation checks. They allow you to identify errors and inaccuracies that affect the evacuation simulation.
3. General checks. These checks allow you to identify errors and inaccuracies related to both the fire dynamics and evacuation simulation.

Despite the fact that some checks are classified as belonging to one of the groups (for example, evacuation checks), the errors they identify can have an indirect effect on the results of another simulation (for example, fire dynamics simulation results).

For example, the check for the Intersection of an exit with other objects belongs to checks aimed to find errors that affect evacuation. However, if there is a topology error, for example, there is an extra wall drawn intersecting an exit, then removing this wall may change the nature of the spread of dangerous fire factors.

By Severity:

1. Checks to find errors. If there are errors, the simulation cannot be conducted. Errors require mandatory correction. Errors are marked with a icon in the error bar.
2. Checks to look for potential errors or inaccuracies. If these errors are found in the project, then simulation can be conducted. However, the simulation may end with the status Error, or simulation results can be inaccurate. Therefore, it is recommended to ignore such warnings only when they do not affect simulation results. Potential errors and warnings have the icon in the error panel.

By Relation to a Scene Element:

1. Checks that are not related to a specific object on the scene. Typically, these are checks for the presence of elements that are necessary to conduct the evacuation and fire dynamics simulation (fire source, exit, person).
2. Checks that are related to a specific object on the scene. For example, checking the door width. The error panel for these errors displays the element to which they apply. Moreover, an additional element may be specified that is associated with this error. To fix the error, you need to double-click the corresponding message in the error panel. The application displays the object on the scene the error applies to (the object will be selected and displayed in the center of the scene). After this, you can adjust the object on the scene to fix the error. If there is another object on the scene that is associated with this error, then you can display it by double-clicking the message in the error panel holding the Shift key.