{"id":379677,"date":"2024-08-21T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/379677\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:42:58","slug":"379677","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/379677\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Change Material Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Question 1: When you say &#8220;First assign the materials to all individual parts,&#8221; do you mean to do this via the GUI or APDL? &lt;br&gt;Question 2: How do I find the ID of each part? &lt;br&gt;Question 3: Could you please provide a sample code in APDL for assigning different materials to 3 parts, where each part has a different material (Material 1, Material 2, and Material 3)?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/21-08-2024-1724254632-mceclip0.png\" \/>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question 4: I&rsquo;m wondering if this is the correct way (in the screenshot) to find the part ID. &lt;br&gt;Question 5: However, since I have many parts in different locations, is there an easier way to identify the IDs without manually checking each part? Currently, I can only see the part names, and since I created them using copy and paste, they all have the same name.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question 6: Could you also provide an example of how to change the material properties for a specific part? &lt;br&gt;Question 7: If the material properties are generated from a Gaussian distribution (with a given mean and variance), how can this be implemented using APDL?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Many thanks for your kind help!&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-379677","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/379677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/379677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}