Assign wood to a desk and chair in an AEC model

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To prepare for running an ambient room temperature simulation in Autodesk CFD,

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you must specify the physical characteristics of the model.

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This includes assigning materials to model parts, such as assigning wood to a desk and chair.

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To start, press CTRL and middle-click the Air part to hide it.

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Left-click to select the chair, and do the same for the desk.

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Then, on the ribbon, in the Setup tab, Materials panel, click Edit.

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The Materials quick edit dialog opens, where you can select the material type.

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For this example, under Property settings, click the Type value to expand the drop-down, and select Solid.

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Next, expand the Name drop-down and select Wood (Soft).

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Click Apply.

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To verify that the wood material is properly assigned, in the Design Study Bar, confirm the material assignment for the Wood (Soft) part.

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Then, in the graphics window, ensure that the color of the desk and chair now matches the Wood (Soft) color in the legend.

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With this material assigned, you are ready to move on to the next step of preparing your model for a CFD simulation.