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The model report checks out fine. You make a modification to the model, re-run the model report and a load of intersection errors appear relating to a completely different part of the model, what is going on? Is Model-IT concealing these errors first time around, leading you (falsely) to believe the geometry is OK, only to piss you off 5 minutes later? I am having to delete and re-build about 90% of my model to try and overcome all the intersection errors, unbound surface errors etc that keep popping up. I sort out one part of the building, then they flag up for a different part. This happens all the time and it wastes days. Model-IT is basically only happy if you draw everything to the grid, which is just not possible. As I have tried to explain to support until I am blue in the face, as soon as you draw a diagonal wall, then create a new object point anywhere along that wall (either partitioning or drawing a new zone to join the diagonal wall), then you have off-grid co-ordinates, and Model-IT can't cope with off-grid co-ordinates, it seems.
Jerry

Hi Jerry

I've noticed this, but as we use SketchUp for some of our models which have more complex geometry, I thought it was due to 3rd part software, given that the models drawn in SketchUp are never imported with grid alignment in ModelIT.

I'd be really interested to see whether this could be fixed in ModelIT without having to redraw the spaces as this takes far too much time.

I wounder whether IES would consider creating a 'healing' geometry function similar to that of the Revit navigator although that is . . . a bit hit and miss.

VEng