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Dear all, I am doing a simulation on the polymer defromation behaviour and try to apply the viscoelastic model for the deformation behaviour. As we konw that the voscoelastic behaviour is temperature related, so here I would like to ask where to set the temperature value to relate the polymer temperature and the viscoelastic model? For example, suppose my polymer is undergoing the temperautre T(t), where shall I set this T(t)? Is it in the reference temperature under thermal effects, where is also under the shift function tree. Here I usre WLF shift fucntion? or in the temperature setting in Model Input of the vsicoelastic setting tree? or in the temperature setting in Model Input of Linear Elastic material tree? or set it in the strain reference temperature in either vsicoelastic setting tree or Linear Elastic material tree? I will attach the three place than mentioned above. Any other ideasare welcome! Thanks a lot for the support!