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CSP-Power Tower - crashes with single facet heliostat #2186

@kjkattke

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@kjkattke

Describe the bug

SAM GUI crashes when updating default Power tower model to a single facet heliostat.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open default CSP -> Power tower model
  2. In Heliostat Field tab, change 'Number of heliostat facets - X' to 1
  3. In Heliostat Field tab, change 'Number of heliostat facets - y' to 1
    • causes GUI to crash

Note: tried setting 'Heliostat canting method' to None before step 2 above and still caused crash after step 3.

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Operating System and Version

  • OS: Windows
  • Version SAM 2025.4.16

Additional context

Issue does not occur in SAM V2021.12.2, but found to occur on all versions I have installed after this.

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