Error: Problem with EVAC line

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Application Version: 5.2.1
SVN Revision Number:2449
Compile Date:7th Oct 2008
Operating System: XP

Describe details of the issue below:
I'm trying to use make a smoke view file from the the fds (evac) examples
on the VTT website. I get the following message in the console:

"ERROR: Problem with EVAC line"

Since I downloaded the example from the site, I'm inclined to think there
is a problem with the installation of FDSEvac. I thought it was embedded
within version 5 of FDS. 

Am I missing something incredibly obvious here?

cheers.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by michael....@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2008 at 5:44

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Timo K will help you with this.

Original comment by mcgra...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2008 at 6:26

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do you happen to have his contact details? Or will he reply on this site?

thanks

Original comment by michael....@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2008 at 7:14

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He will reply here. He is in Finland, and hopefully getting a good night's rest 
right now.

Original comment by mcgra...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2008 at 7:38

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Which ".fds" file you are trying to run? And which version of
FDS are you using? You should use FDS 5.2.1 or later.

Original comment by tkorh...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 7:08

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I am using 5.2.1 and I am trying to run the first example FDS file from the VTT 
website:

http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/proj6/fdsevac/fds5/examples/evac_example1a.fds

Original comment by michael....@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 8:00

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I just tried to run the example case and it run nicely.
Download the latest FDS version.

CygWin (/cygdrive/d/Help_FDS+Evac): nice +10 ./fds5.exe evac_example1a.fds

 Fire Dynamics Simulator

 Compilation Date : Thu, 16 Oct 2008
 Version          : 5.2.3 Serial
 SVN Revision No. : 2514

 Job TITLE        : Test 1, fire+evac
 Job ID string    : evac_example1a

 Time Step:    -40,    Simulation Time:      0.00 s
 Time Step:    -30,    Simulation Time:      0.00 s
 ...

Ciao,
TimoK

Original comment by tkorh...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 8:27

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Thanks. I've just upgraded to 5.2.4 and it appears to work now (it didn't within
5.2.0 and 5.2.1).

Original comment by michael....@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 9:03

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There are some input keyword, which are changed, see the
latest manual:
http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/proj6/fdsevac/documents/FDS+EVAC_5_Guide.pdf

For example EVAC-namelist:

AVATAR_COLOR Color of the agents seen in Smokeview if COLOR_METHOD=0. See
the FDS User’s Guide and FDS web page for the list of available color names.

Older verions used "QUANTITY=RED", for example. Also older version had
"EVAC_MESH", which is now "MESH_ID". The new version should be able
to read the old input files, but the old version can not read the
new files.

One big change is that the present version can have thin OBSTs
in the evacuation calculation. The old version was always
assuming THICKEN=.TRUE. for the evacuation meshes, i.e., OBSTs
were at least one grid cell thick.

See the chapter:
1.3 Most recent changes, version 2.1.0 vs 2.0.0

Ciao,
TimoK

Original comment by tkorh...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 9:43

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I'll changed the status of this issue to "Verified".
TimoK

Original comment by tkorh...@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 10:43

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