3D Wire Mesh

[Ryan Dognaux]

Hey all, I'm having some real trouble making the wire mesh for the playing field, it's the contraints in Inventor that are really getting me. If someone could possibly upload a piece of thier mesh onto the forums that would help greatly, or just tips will help too. Thank you!

[Jeremy_Mc]

i can post one in 3ds format...


maybe autocad or something else you can pull into inventor...

if you want it, pm me.

*jeremy

[AJ Quick]

Just draw a circle, and pattern it out to the appropriate length. Then select all of those, and extrude them all to the right length.. that is one side. Then start a new sketch, and change the plane. Draw another circle, pattern that out, and extrude them all. You should have a nice wire mesh model.

[Clark Gilbert]

If your using Inventor 5 or 6 for the playing field you could just make a very thin rectangle for the mesh, then apply a texture to it. There might even be a texture included that would look pretty good.

[FAKrogoth]

Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
If your using Inventor 5 or 6 for the playing field you could just make a very thin rectangle for the mesh, then apply a texture to it. There might even be a texture included that would look pretty good.

One of the textures IS a wire mesh. As long as you don't care that the mesh can only be about 1/2", it should be fine. As for something more exact, you could do it with lots of extruded circles, and one constrain "flush" on each side.

[Soukup]

the easiest way to make wire mess won't be in inventor. It will be in 3ds max. You can model it Just make a box...and by adjusting the amount of height and width segments you'll get a believable effect... Add a material to that...(wireframe) it's at the top of the material editor..in a check box. You can modify the parameters in the extended parameters dialogue...it works out quite well.