Convergence Issues in Simulation

[SlawsonEngineering]

I have a model in which I solved with a certain load.  Convergence plot shows good, 3%, under the target of 5%.  Next I used the same load and mesh settings, only changed the direction of the load, and now the mesh won't converge.  I will only get to 35%.  Any ideas on why this might be?

[Mike.Grau]

Hi @SlawsonEngineering

Sorry, this was a duplicated post.

Thanks,

[Mike.Grau]

Hi @SlawsonEngineering

Thank you for your post in the Forum.

I would be happy to review your simulation setup and help you to troubleshoot the error.

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[Mike.Grau]

Hi @SlawsonEngineering,

Please, let us know if the change load and constraints have been helpful

solve the error with the unresolved Stiffness Matrix.

Thank you and best regards, 

[SlawsonEngineering]

Mike,

I understand what you did by changing the boundary conditions to change the stiffness matrix, but I don't understand why improved convergence.  Can you please explain further?

[Mike.Grau]

Hi @SlawsonEngineering,

Thank you for asking about that. Yes, you have seen that, right.

I did not do anything to control the convergence of the results, since you have selected "Automatic Adaptive Mesh Refinement"

and the automatic convergence looked actually great.

If you would like to have more control over the convergence, you can play with number of adaptive mesh refinement steps within the Settings.

You would un-check the box and play with the "Results Convergence Tolerance" and the "Portion of Elements to Refine".

Just in case you do not reach convergence on a lower tolerance, you may want to increase the "Maximum Number of Mesh Refinements"

This link here in our learning content gives you a great overview how to work with the Settings in Fusion 360.

I hope this answers your question. Please, keep me updated.

Thank you,