Can't create SolidMaterial in FEM workbench on MAC OS FreeCAD 0.18.16117

[harrison1]

As per the title. Steps I've gone through:

• 1. create sketch and constrain
  2. Part Design - Pad - 10mm
  3. FEM workbench - "Create an analysis container with standard solver CalculiX (N, A)"
  4. FEM workbench - " Create a FEM material for solid (M, M)"

after this nothing happens. When I try double clicking on the SolidMaterial part of the tree I get error message "Active Task Dialog found! Please close this one before opening a new one!"

From the Report view

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  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/Mod/Fem/femguiobjects/_ViewProviderFemMaterial.py", line 71, in setEdit
    taskd = _TaskPanelFemMaterial(self.Object)
  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/Mod/Fem/femguiobjects/_ViewProviderFemMaterial.py", line 151, in __init__
    self.import_materials()
  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/Mod/Fem/femguiobjects/_ViewProviderFemMaterial.py", line 574, in import_materials
    self.import_solid_materials()
  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/Mod/Fem/femguiobjects/_ViewProviderFemMaterial.py", line 581, in import_solid_materials
    self.add_cards_from_a_dir(system_mat_dir, ":/icons/freecad.svg")
  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/Mod/Fem/femguiobjects/_ViewProviderFemMaterial.py", line 620, in add_cards_from_a_dir
    self.materials[a_path] = Material.importFCMat(a_path)
  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/Mod/Material/Material.py", line 65, in importFCMat
    Config.read(fileName)
  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/configparser.py", line 697, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/configparser.py", line 1015, in _read
    for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
  File "/Users/Harrison/Desktop/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
<class 'UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)
Active Task Dialog found! Please close this one before opening  a new one!

• FreeCAD info:
  OS: macOS 10.14
  Word size of OS: 64-bit
  Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
  Version: 0.18.16117 (Git)
  Build type: Release
  Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.18.2)
  Hash: dbb4cc6415bac848a294f03b80f65e888d531742
  Python version: 3.6.7
  Qt version: 5.6.2
  Coin version: 4.0.0a
  OCC version: 7.3.0