In the Inner or Outer Netting and/or the Inner or Outer Weave panels, click on the material button for the Inward Wire Material, Outward Wire Material, Warp Material, and Weft Material to select the desired material from the material data base.

Inward Wire Pitch, Outward Wire Pitch, Warp Pitch, and Weft Pitch correspond, respectively, to the distance between the middle points (centers) of the inward wires, the outward wires, the warp wires, or the weft wires. The pitch is equivalent to the sum of the wire Aperture and the wire Diameter in-Plane.

Inward, outward, warp, and weft wires do not necessarily have a circular cross section. When the wires have an ellipsoid cross-section, one of the axes is oriented with the plane of the pleat (in-plane), while the other is perpendicular to the pleat and, therefore, out-of-plane. In mesh wire, Diameter in-Plane and Diameter out-of-Plane determine the wire thickness.

Inward Wire Aperture, Outward Wire Aperture, Warp Aperture, and Weft Aperture describe the distance between two neighboring wires, measured in the center of the aperture. The aperture is automatically calculated from the entered pitch and diameter in-Plane values.

For Inner Support Weave or Outer Support Weave, one of the available Weave Types can be chosen from the pull-down menu: Plain Weave, Twill 2/1 Weave, or Twill 2/2 Weave. See the WeaveGeo User Guide for more information on weave types.

For Inner Support Netting or Outer Support Netting, the Wires Angle is the angle between the inward and the outward wires or the warp and the weft wires.

The Wires Angle can only be chosen for support nettings, not for support weaves. For weaves, the wires angle is always 90º.

The netting or weave Tilt Angle is the angle of incline of the netting or the weave supporting structure with respect to the pleat medium along the pleat depth. The valid tilt angle values range from 0º to 45º.

Wire Overlap establishes the percentage of overlap of the inward wire with the outward wire, or the warp wire with the weft wire. In the model, the wires of the netting (or weave) may be generated to partly cover each other to account for plastic deformations during the welding or the weaving. Observe how the warp and the weft wires increasingly overlap in the figure below.

Media–Supporting Structure Overlap is the amount of overlap between the pleated media, and the netting or weave supporting structure. Observe how increasing the Media–Supporting Structure Overlap from 0 mm to 0.1 mm, and to 0.15 mm gradually embeds the support structure into the pleated media.

Perpendicular Outward Wire Shift and Perpendicular Weft Shift are, respectively, the shift of the outward wire and the weft wire on the pleat surface, perpendicular to the XZ plane, i.e. in Y-direction.

The shift in position of the blue weft wire along the Y-direction can be observed on the crest of the pleat when increasing the value of Perpendicular Weft Shift. The grey warp wires remain at the initial position.

Outward Wire Shift and Weft Shift are, respectively, the shift of the outward wire and the weft wire on the pleat surface in the XZ-plane.

Observe how the blue weft wires shift in position along the crest of the pleat when setting the Weft Shift value to 0.5mm (half the weft pitch). The grey warp wires remain at the initial position.