The planned MG procedure for 3-D works Bottom Up. This is the Top. The final grid : 1 grid 33 x 33 x 64 4th generation Grid coarsening: 8 grids 17 x 17 x 32 3rd generation 64 grids 9 x 9 x 16 2nd generation 512 grids 5 x 5 x 8 1st generation The number of elements is approximately the same for each generation. Thus the FEA procedure will take 4 times as long as for a single grid. Because FEA is so time-consuming, it cannot be compensated by shorter iterations in the Solving phase, where MultiGrid would show its power.