FEM WorkBench - Can not open Material Dialog

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JamesMarine
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FEM WorkBench - Can not open Material Dialog

Post by JamesMarine »

I am a new starter of FreeCAD, when i tried to work out my first case on FEM workbench, the below error when clicking "Solid Material" occured. Does anyone have some suggestion regarding what happened?

File "C:\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.18\Mod\Material\Material.py", line 65, in importFCMat
Config.read(fileName)
File "C:\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.18\bin\lib\configparser.py", line 697, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "C:\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.18\bin\lib\configparser.py", line 1015, in _read
for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
<class 'UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 586: illegal multibyte sequence
Syres
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Re: FEM WorkBench - Can not open Material Dialog

Post by Syres »

This was a bug (https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/comm ... cc1fe5d996) that has been fixed in the latest version 0.18.3, therefore please upgrade to include this and other bugfixes https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.18.3
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