Materials: Valve Body and Poppet

In this step, we assign steel to the valve body and poppet. You will have to use some of the navigation techniques discussed in the previous topic, so please be sure you understand them.

  1. Select the valve body by left clicking on it:

    valve body

  2. Hide the valve body and the flow volume by holding Ctrl while middle clicking on both:

    hide body

  3. Select the poppet by left clicking on it:

    select poppet

  4. Click Edit from the Materials context panel:

    edit material

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

    1. In the Type row, click in the right-side column.

    2. Select Solid.

      select solid

  6. From the Name menu, select Steel.

    select steel

  7. Click Apply.

What it should look like...

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

  1. On the Design Study bar, confirm the material assignment for the two Steel parts.

  2. The valve body and poppet parts should be colored to correspond to the Steel color in the legend.

    verify material

Note: To check the coloring of the poppet part, you'll have to hide the valve body and the flow volume.

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