creating a wire mesh

[leandrav]

Hi,

Can anyone give me a solution as how best to go about creating a "wire mesh".

What i have tried is to create a solid flat (2mm thick) piece of material.

I then draw a diamond shape on the surface & extrude it so as to give me a void.

Then i use the rectangular pattern option.

The problem is that when i try putting in the amounts of the "holes" i need to brings up  message to use optomized compute.

I do that and then when i click to crate all the "holes" it comes up with a pattern failiure error.

What other way can i use to create my object.

Thanks,

[stephengibson76 · Accepted solution]

depending on what you are doing it might be worth using a wire mesh texcture rather than trying to model it which will be really heavy in terms of computing

[SeanFarr · Accepted solution]

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@leandrav wrote:

I then draw a diamond shape on the surface & extrude it so as to give me a void.

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You will want to use a texture, becasue creating a rectangular pattern of a cut-out will cause extreme lag in your system.

I found that the textures are scaled low, so they don't show up well, but follow this old post and it should help you get your result.

Old Post

[leandrav]

Awesome!!! works beautifully

Thanks for the help guys!!

[BLHDrafting]

Here is a more realistic Wire Mesh part. Just change the 4 User parameters to suit your needs. It's not overly taxing on the model. Can't remember where I found it but it's handy and you can 'bend' it.

[leandrav]

I will give it a try. Thanks

[savich]

Thanks, this works great!

[MelHoward8999]

worked for me

[jaskiratVPK8U]

Hi,

This is really nice part. Thank you for sharing.

I have one more question. How did you put function in the description of the part. See the attached screenshot.