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You can use 1 step to turn on one pressure and step 2 to turn on another pressure.<br \/>\nYou should edit your geometry to make the base of the small cubic cavity have a thinner bottom wall thickness so it takes less pressure to close the valve.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t claim that the archive below will converge to the end because I can&#8217;t run this on my laptop which has only 16 GB RAM. I might try to run it on my desktop with 64 GB of RAM later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-194906","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1) Symmetry Region 6 uses the same face as Region 4, but points in the wrong direction. Delete it. Except after I did step 2, I redefined all the Symmetry regions. 2) Open the Geometry in SpaceClaim. Use the Repair tab and simplify the surfaces, remove extra edges and extra points. 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