The Ultimate Guide To the Industrial Woven Wire Mesh - W.S. Tyler

To initiate the industrial mesh buying process, you should reach out and supply the required mesh specification. This includes the length (rolled goods), dimensions (cut-to-size pieces), opening size, wire diameter, and weave pattern.

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• Here's a complete list of what you will need to get started:
  
  Manufacturer name/trademark
  Nominal wire diameter
  Nominal aperture size
  Weight (when applicable)
  Weave pattern
  Alloy
  Dimensions
  Required tolerances
  Order quantity
  Product label/technical data (for repeat orders)
  
  

While you may not know every specification you need, the more information you supply, the better we will be able to identify if your order fits our scope of work and calculate the logistics required to produce the mesh. Additionally, if you can supply samples of the wire mesh specification you wish to purchase, it can be reverse-engineered and recreated.

You should also provide information that accurately illustrates how the mesh will be used. This allows us to properly understand your needs and deliver a solution that resolves your concerns.

After reviewing your specifications with our engineering team, a quote reflecting all aspects of the order will be sent. If you accept the quote, the final step will be to submit a purchase order.

It's at this point that your mesh will begin being fabricated, with order confirmations, tracking numbers, and fabrication updates being sent to you.

How is Industrial Woven Wire Delivered?

The way in which woven wire mesh is packaged will vary depending on the manufacturer. That said, rolls and cut-to-size pieces are most often shipped in custom pallets.
With rolls in particular,  lengths of 25 or 30 meters, with half lengths of 12.5 or 15 meters are standard. NOTE: These standard lengths are expected to fall within +/- 10% of the invoiced length.

It is important to remember that partial lengths are available. But a roll cannot consist of three pieces, and each roll must reach at least 2.5 meters.

The width of the roll must be greater than the nominal width, up to 2%.

Cut-to-size pieces, of course, are made to order based on the sides, lengths, radi, and angles set by the customer. Regardless of the form factor, woven wire will arrive with a label containing the following information:

• Supplier name/trademark
• Nominal wire diameter
• Nominal aperture size
• Weave pattern
• Material designation
• Size
• Order quantity
  
  

What Will You Recieve With Your Wire Mesh Order?

When your woven wire order arrives at your facility, you should, in most cases, also receive the associated inspection documentation. Based on the amount of testing you mesh underwent, you can expect:

Hi @Anonymous,

Any particular reason for modelling a wire mesh?

Whilst you can model it, it will result in a lot of faces and edges which will slow Inventor down without adding much to the model.

If you don't need to simulate the mesh then use an appearance to represent the mesh.

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Are you looking for something like this?

If yes have a look at the attached Inventor files.

If not let us know more detailed what you need.

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Is this the style you are after,

Obviously, the dimensions probably aren't right but in short it's just making a wavy sketch (see below), sweeping and patterning.

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@Anonymous wrote:

Do you have any tutorial video for it?

Open the above attached files . Then (and also after looking at @leowarren34's image) you should see how it can be done.

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What if you want this screen mesh to follow a irregular curved surface? Any ideas on that? So when I say irregular I mean a change in the X,Y plane but a uniform Z. Like laying it in a half of a pipe.

@jim.knapp wrote:

... Like laying it in a half of a pipe.

That should be possible in a similar way as shown in post#4. But instead of the rectangle patterns use circular patterns  where you need. 

A sketch what you want to get should give more clearness for us ...

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I've attached a file that is a half-circle of 20 x 20 (per inch) Ø0.014 in wire, 5" x 5".  You haven't told us what version of Inventor you're using, and I did not intend to post my work, so I modeled it in Inventor .  I'm sorry if you're unable to open it, but it was quite a lot of work so I probably won't re-do it in a different version unless you want to specify exactly what mesh you're using, and the details about the shape that it needs to take.

I created one strand by patterning, copied it 90°, patterned to create their opposite weaves, used Bend Part to bend two "strands" into the proper curve, then patterned several times.  This is not an assembly, though-- it's all in one (very large) part file.  I've dragged the End-of-Part marker to the top to reduce the file size.

Sam B

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That's exactly what I'm trying to do. I have an assembly that is made up of 3 distinct wires that make up my mesh pattern. I am currently using inventor pro and we won't upgrade until this summer. At least now I see it can be done. I have attached a zip file of the sample mesh. Can I bend the last 2" in from the sides with a 3/4" bend radius and the middle remain horizontally flat?

The biggest drawback is that I could change the surface I'm using to make the spiral wire to reflect the desired curve but design changes would force me to continuously go back and edit that surface. I was hoping there was an easier way.

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