At Step 25, I stop the simulation. The tutorial says: “Examine the Damage Factor.”
Yes. I know. That’s the point. I want to see the fold. The lap. The cold shut that will ruin this $400 forging die in real life. The tutorial calls it a "defect." I call it the truth. deform 3d tutorial
I hit ‘Generate Mesh.’ The tutorial shows a beautiful, symmetrical grid of 8,000 elements. My screen? The mesh looks like a Jackson Pollock painting—tetrahedrons overlapping like a drunk orgy of nodes. At Step 25, I stop the simulation
The solver warns me: “Mesh is severely distorted.” At Step 25