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Design of Metal Grate using rectangular array feature

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northweststavecody
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Design of Metal Grate using rectangular array feature

 

I am looking to design a grate approximately 5mX10m with holes 250mmX32mm. My first thought was to drawing the outline of the 5mX10m grate, then create an array of tiny 32mmX200mm boxes and extrude the material between the boxes and the boundary frame. Unfortunately when I create the simple array (something like 50box by 120 boxes) inventor keeps freezing I'm thinking this is too large of a patter for inventor.

 

 

 

Does anyone have any ideas how I can make the grate in a smarter/ less resource intense manner?

 

Regards,

Cody

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@northweststavecody wrote:

 

Does anyone have any ideas how I can make the grate in a smarter/ less resource intense manner?

 

Regards,

Cody


Cosmetic material texture.  Check out some of the expanded metal textures.

 

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swalton
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The cosmetic works very well, unless you want to see through the grating in unshaded idw views.  There it fails.

 

I have had good luck with bar grating by extruding a single bar and then pattering it.  I next extrude a single crossmember and pattern it. 

 

These are resouce heavy for large assemblies and drawings of large assemblies. 

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spfurlong
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What about the grill feature.  This should work.  I'm about to do the same thing, will try it out and come back to you.

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