In this step, we assign a plastic material (ABS) to the outer casing of the enclosure and the fan bracket.

You will have to use some of the navigation techniques we practiced in the previous step, so please be sure you understand them.

1. Select the casing part by left clicking on it:

2. Hide the casing and the air by holding Ctrl and middle clicking on both parts.

You should see this:

3. Select the fan bracket:

4. Click Edit from the Materials context panel:

5. On the Materials quick edit dialog, select the material type:

• a. In the Type row, click in the right-side column.
• b. Select Solid.

6. From the Name menu, select ABS (Molded).

7. Click Apply.

What it should look like...

8. To verify that the ABS material is properly assigned, check the Design Study Bar and the part coloring:

• a. On the Design Study bar, confirm the material assignment for the ABS (Molded) parts.

• b. The casing part should be colored to correspond to the ABS (Molded) color in the legend.

If you resume the casing part (hold Ctrl and middle click off the model), you should see this:

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