Bending a wire mesh sheet

Gerard_Boterman

I have created a configurable (welded square) mesh sheet, configurable by width, depth, wire gauge and wire pitch.

My sheet is e.g. 600x600 mm, wire 1.4mm, wire pitch 25 mm. I now want to bend the sheet, not reconstruct, but bend it along a crossing axis. Can this be done in Onshape?

I need to create various parts of different mesh sheet sizes with different bends. Any suggestions please? Thanks, Gerard

Here is the shared link: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3af7129c6e0d10acb7b4984e/w/d575f57aaf3dec6cfbaaf897/e/d8680fa187603d387c243aff?configuration=Depth%3D0.9%2Bmeter%3BList_LsgdaYsfQTXwaZ%3DDefault%3BWidth%3D0.8%2Bmeter%3BWire_pitch%3D0.025%2Bmeter&renderMode=0&uiState=6838c6376e86350e4c4e8ffe

MDesign

You will have to model it in its bent form. you can't bend existing parts.

MichaelPascoe

@MDesign is right.

Here is an example of how you can configure it with bend functionality in mind:
I also updated your pattern to convert the pitch to the closest allowed pitch, keeping the start and end wires at the ends.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1487c3663c675bbaa83cd138/w/748b29d0427ab758a0fad7bc/e/0d15582c7fae64…

Also, this is a bit of a hack, but it still exists. It's a custom feature for bending or flexing things:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/18615/featurescript-flex-taper-twist-deform…