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Welcome to FEA! FEA stands for Finite Element Analysis and is what the team uses to simulate the stresses your parts will experience in use.

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• Title your page with the day you finished it! → Makes it easier to keep track of revisions

• You’ll see a page for each week which will house all the FEA reports from that week. When you’ve finished up, I want you to change the status of the part you’re working on and highlight it green or red for pass or fail respectively. But do it for the cell background tho.

• Make sure your Mesh is fine enough → make sure that each section has at least two nodes

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title Example - Good and Bad Meshes
This is a bad mesh since it’s there’s only a single node between the two faces. Image Added This is a better mesh since there’s two nodes between the two faces. Image Added And the more nodes the better! It just takes more time to run the simulation.

• Make sure the correct faces are selected for loads and fixtures and use split lines to highlight the correct sections.

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title Example - How Use Split Lines
Jens Dekker add screenshotsStart off by making a sketch of where you want split lines. Image Added Exit the sketch and go to split line. Image Added Select “Projection,” the sketch you made, and the face(s) you want to split. Image Added This result in the face being split so you can select certain areas for loads and fixtures. Image Added

• Don’t simulate off-the-shelf (OTS) parts → we choose parts that we know will withstand the loading, you won’t need to simulate them, makes everything more complicated

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