{"id":164772,"date":"2023-03-17T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T08:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-handle-the-fluent-meshing-message-error-format-unassigned-variable-format-error-object\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:26:14","slug":"how-to-handle-the-fluent-meshing-message-error-format-unassigned-variable-format-error-object","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-handle-the-fluent-meshing-message-error-format-unassigned-variable-format-error-object\/","title":{"rendered":"How to handle the Fluent Meshing message: Error: format: unassigned variable format (~\/) Error Object: #\/"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;Generate Surface Mesh&#8217; task of 2020R1 and because of ~ character in the temp path you can get the following error message:  Error: format: unassigned variable format (~\/) Error Object: #\/  The workaround is to remove the ~ character from &#8216;Generate Surface Mesh&#8217; task directory. You can avoid it in the future sessions, by setting temporary files folder to something which does not have ~. This can be done in File > Preferences > Meshing Workflow > Temporary files folder. Set to for example E:temp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-164772","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-2020-r1","topic-tag-fluent-meshing-tgrid","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-meshing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["3-15-2023  20:20:36"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_btv_view_count":["1443"],"siebel_km_number":["2062366"],"product_version":["2020 R1"],"km_published_date":["2020-03-02T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["FLUENT Meshing\/Tgrid"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}