Modeling a wire net

[Anonymous]

Hi people!

Currently I finished modeling a machine that have protection
fences with wire mesh panels (with different sizes).

I needed a net with 40mm squares and 4mm steel
wire.

I used a texture from IV but after scaling the pattern to
aprox. 40mm the 'wire' becomes huge and the final aspect seems to be more
appropriate to contain Hannibal Lecter.

So, I m asking you about the best approach to design a generic
wire net that we can vary the dimensions and the wire diameter. ipart and
iassembly?, or any other method? Or there is somewhere a pattern more
appropriated than that of IV texture.

Thanks for youh help

J. Barbosa

 

[stephengibson76]

i did something similar with skeletal modelling. the mesh always had a border of flatbar with my design. you basically start out with a rectangular sheet input the largest size needed, (i used the sign function in the pattern parameters to add logic to decide if the midpoint of the rectangle was on a wire or halfway between 2 wires. this made sure you had a sensible finish to the flatbar, ie not almost 40mm away or 1 mm away.)

with this rectangle you could then add cutouts to suit the shape of the panel and the flatbar border would follow this perimeter automatically. its been a while since i did anything like this but will try to dig out the model to give you an idea

[stephengibson76]

take a look at this, its an early effort and is just a part driven by user parameters

[Anonymous]

It seems interesting. I'll adapt your
solution.

I will try also making the wires tangent intead of
intersecting, to see how it looks.

Thanks

J.Barbosa

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take
a look at this, its an early effort and is just a part driven by user
parameters

[Anonymous]

Here it goes my wire mesk based on your parameters hoping it
is usefull to anyone.

Thanks once more.

J. Barbosa 

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take
a look at this, its an early effort and is just a part driven by user
parameters

[rolladale]

Gday Jose,

Hope you are still well.

Your wire mesh is the best I have seen anywhere!

I am only new to inventor and you did this some years ago, but I was hoping you could explain the parameters you used as when I download it there are values in there I cant find.

Please treat me as a two year old as I am still finding my way in this software.

I look forward to your response.

Cheers.

[rolladale]

Hey Jose 🙂

Disregard that last request.

I am an idiot.

I looked through your parameters and theyb were so well written I modified it to suit my wire mesh by creating my own spreadsheet for your parameters.

You are a champion!

All the best.

Cheers from Australia.