Create Structural Model for FEA

Hello all,

I'm trying to conduct a structural simulation and Im at the point of creating a mesh, but it fails due to out of memory. I saw a similar post and they reduced the faces of their .stl file. Do I reduce the faces in matlab or is that something I have to do in my modeling application? ive attached my 3d model.

Thanks

[Precise Simulation]

Ideally you would want to use a more accurate geometry representation like the STEP format. With STL files you can possibly try to use the reducepatch function and also the facet reduction functionality available in STLTool toolbox.