https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/creating-a-chain-link-wire-mesh/m-p/5556888#M382070 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR />@Anonymous wrote:<BR /> <P>You could design it as a surface?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Sure, but why? &nbsp;Surfaces don't take much less resource than a solid, and you can't automagically get your mass or anything else from them.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If you have the resources available, do it as a solid. &nbsp;If you don't, do it as a texture. &nbsp;(Actually, you should probably just do it as a texture anyway, and set your material to have the appropriate density for a square / linear foot or meter or whatever of the material you're using.)</P> Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:34:58 GMT LT.Rusty 2015-03-25T14:34:58Z