{"id":165687,"date":"2023-03-17T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-apdl-launcher-error-the-tcl-command-that-was-executed-to-submit-your-run-has-failed-with-the-following-error-error-the-directory-name-is-invalid\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:34:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:34:37","slug":"ansys-mechanical-apdl-launcher-error-the-tcl-command-that-was-executed-to-submit-your-run-has-failed-with-the-following-error-error-the-directory-name-is-invalid","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-apdl-launcher-error-the-tcl-command-that-was-executed-to-submit-your-run-has-failed-with-the-following-error-error-the-directory-name-is-invalid\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSYS Mechanical APDL Launcher Error  The Tcl command that was executed to submit your run has failed with the following error:  Error: The directory name is invalid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This error pops up when using direct shortcut to launch Mechanical APDL and the launcher is not able to identify the user settings.  To resolve the error, use &#8216;Mechanical APDL Product Launcher&#8217; and choose &#8216;ANSYS&#8217; in Simulation Environment. Then run Ansys Mechanical APDL.  This step will use fresh settings and resolve the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-165687","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-installation-licensing-systems","topic-tag-mechanical-apdl-sys","topic-tag-other","topic-tag-product-specific-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["3\/15\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["153867"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_btv_view_count":["5434"],"siebel_km_number":["2062704"],"product_version":["Other"],"km_published_date":["2020-05-08T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Installation\/Licensing\/Systems"],"application_name":["Mechanical APDL - SYS"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/165687","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\/165687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}