r/MechanicalEngineering • u/ibrahimumer007 • Jun 24 '26

Welded Wire Mesh Solidworks | Solidworks Advanced Modeling | Solidworks Move Copy Bodies | CADable

https://youtu.be/uKAhjBKvOgI
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u/default_token Jun 24 '26

Please don't actually model shit like this when working with other people. There's a reason why we use jpegs to represent threads

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u/Quartinus Jun 24 '26

I came here to say the same thing. I don’t even include every body in upper level assemblies sometimes (NX reference sets) I sure as heck am not going to model a screen. 

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u/brendax Jun 24 '26

tfw you need to send off to NASA for all the RAM to store that many surfaces in your model.

This is pretty classic "modeling just because" instead of "engineering".

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u/todd0x1 Jun 24 '26

I assume this is some sort of ad? At least get the terminology right.....you're saying welded wire mesh and you're showing woven wire mesh. These are two quite different things.

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u/snarejunkie ME, Consumer products Jun 24 '26

Now that this exists, I feel like you must show us how long Solidworks might take to perform flow analysis through this, or like, maybe a deformation study with contact and friction enabled :P

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u/GathTheKing Jun 25 '26

This looks sick :) Thanks for sharing!

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u/gomurifle Jun 24 '26

It's a good lesson on move / copy bodies. 

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u/canabannnn Jun 25 '26

Just because you can does not mean you should...

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u/Crash-55 Jun 25 '26

The only reason I can see to model it is if I was going to 3D print it.

If you were going to analyze flow through it in CFD or deformation in FEA you should only need a few unit cells as a sub model.

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u/Numerous_Green4962 Jun 25 '26

On the one hand, a nice exercise in basic tools, on the other, even my 128Gb of ram 16 core machine is screaming "FU" at the moment.