Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

I work sometimes with expanded, perforated and welded mesh sheet. Is there a
simple way I can create a sheet metal material of each or download from
somewhere?

[#2]

Inventor has built-in textures for a lot of those... your mass properties
for the metal won't reflect the holes in the material, but you can override
the mass or create a material whose density is, say, 50% of what it really
is to account for the holes.

"Gary White" wrote in message
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> I work sometimes with expanded, perforated and welded mesh sheet. Is there
a
> simple way I can create a sheet metal material of each or download from
> somewhere?
>
>

[#3]

That is exactly how a cleint of mine handles this. Cg is really important to them and they still do it this way.