{"id":319,"date":"2015-11-23T23:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/quick-tip-mesh-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T10:16:10","slug":"quick-tip-mesh-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/quick-tip-mesh-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"QUICK TIP: Mesh Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>In the world of Finite Element Analysis, there is a great deal of effort put toward creating a balanced mesh. The reason for this is the correlation&nbsp;between result&nbsp;quality and&nbsp;solve time; as quality goes up, so does solve time. At some point, however, you&#8217;ll have diminishing returns and&nbsp;refining the mesh more doesn&#8217;t give significantly different results.&nbsp;<SPAN style=\"line-height: 20px;\">As that is the case, you only want to get it as fine as needed, and this is especially true when you use Fusion 360&#8217;s integrated simulation&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;design tool to create multiple iterations of digital prototypes.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>Luckily, Fusion 360 has made this mesh refinement process &amp; result quality balancing act as simple as selecting&nbsp;a toggle. The next time you run an analysis&nbsp;in Fusion 360, make sure to use the automatic mesh adaptation&nbsp;tool. This tool will work with parts and assemblies, and will help engineers gain additional insight into their results, and ensure accuracy while maintaining a manageable&nbsp;mesh size.&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>To see this in action, take a look at the following video:&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><CENTER><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-center video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embedly-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fzs4phTyjiaY%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dzs4phTyjiaY%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fzs4phTyjiaY%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=fad07bfa4bd747d3bdea27e17b533c0e&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/CENTER><P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Mesh Adapatation1.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/194607iF161EAD24CF0CCC6\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Mesh Adapatation1.gif\" \/><\/P><P>Take a look at this QUICK TIP to understand&nbsp;<EM>how<\/EM> and <EM>why<\/EM> you want to use our automatic mesh adaptation tool.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[670],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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