ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 61:

[hcb_kd 0]

While trying to slice a file, Cura goes "something went wrong during slicing!", and on the last line of the report, it says:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 61: ordinal not in range(128)

Does this make any sense to anyone?

I run Cura on a new W7 computer, and have just updated to Cura 12.12

The file was modelled in SolidWorks.

The entire report:

File C:XXXXX is being chain exported.

Carve procedure took 4 seconds.

Preface procedure took 1 second.

Inset procedure took 17 seconds.

Fill procedure took 39 seconds.

Speed procedure took 1 second.

Raft procedure took 17 seconds.

Skirt procedure took 1 second.

Comb procedure took 1 second.

Cool procedure took 2 seconds.

Dimension procedure took 1 second.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "app_main.py", line 51, in run_toplevel

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\pypy\lib-python\2.7\runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main

"__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\pypy\lib-python\2.7\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code

exec code in run_globals

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura.py", line 78, in

main()

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura.py", line 67, in main

sliceRun.runSlice(args)

File "Cura\util\sliceRun.py", line 89, in runSlice

skeinforge_craft.writeOutput(fileName)

File "Cura\cura_sf\skeinforge_application\skeinforge_utilities\skeinforge_craft.py", line 133, in writeOutput

return pluginModule.writeOutput(fileName, shouldAnalyze)

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura_sf\skeinforge_application\skeinforge_plugins\craft_plugins\export.py", line 272, in writeOutput

gcodeText = skeinforge_craft.getChainTextFromProcedures(fileName, procedures[: -1], gcodeText)

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura_sf\skeinforge_application\skeinforge_utilities\skeinforge_craft.py", line 42, in getChainTextFromProcedures

text = craftModule.getCraftedText(fileName, text)

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura_sf\skeinforge_application\skeinforge_plugins\craft_plugins\alteration.py", line 94, in getCraftedText

return getCraftedTextFromText(archive.getTextIfEmpty(fileName, text), repository, fileName)

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura_sf\skeinforge_application\skeinforge_plugins\craft_plugins\alteration.py", line 104, in getCraftedTextFromText

return AlterationSkein().getCraftedGcode(gcodeText, repository, fileName)

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura_sf\skeinforge_application\skeinforge_plugins\craft_plugins\alteration.py", line 180, in getCraftedGcode

self.addFromUpperLowerFile(repository.nameOfStartFile.value) # Add a start file if it exists.

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura_sf\skeinforge_application\skeinforge_plugins\craft_plugins\alteration.py", line 172, in addFromUpperLowerFile

self.distanceFeedRate.addLinesSetAbsoluteDistanceMode(alterationFileLines)

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura_sf\fabmetheus_utilities\gcodec.py", line 356, in addLinesSetAbsoluteDistanceMode

self.addLine('()' + line)

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_12.12A\Cura\cura_sf\fabmetheus_utilities\gcodec.py", line 325, in addLine

self.output.write(line + '\n')

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 61: ordinal not in range(128)

[msurunner 2]

I'm guessing you have a "non-standard" character in the filename. Daid's added the ability to recognize many of them but some things like accented letters and umlauts can cause issues.

[hcb_kd 0]

ah, thanks, didn't think of that. The folder contained an "ä"