How to create a bunch of tiny equal holes in a curved plane

Question

I'm currently working on recreating this type of material on blender but I'm not sure how to make this many small holes on a curved plane. Right now in my project I have a plane that's the same shape as the example but without the holes and I'm unsure how to add those holes. Any help would be much appreciated :)

thanks.

Answer 1

Working X across, Z up.

• Enable the shipped add-on 'Add Mesh: Extra Objects'.
• Add a 'Honeycomb' object with the desired number and size of hexes.

The following steps are optional, in your case, because another part is overlapping the edges of your grid..

• If necessary, select the appropriate outside perimeter edges, and E X and EZ extrude them, before SX0 and SZ0, straightening them.
• With Snap set to 'Vertex and 'Active', snap the corner diagonals together, and CtrlR cut in some transitional loops.

Give the sheet modifiers..

• Solidify (outwards)
• Bevel (by a high angle, tiny 1-segment)
• Simple Deform > Bend
• A level of Subdivision Surface.

If the curve is not right for you, you could, say, duplicate a bit of the surrounding geometry, convert that to a curve, and use a Curve modifier to deform the mesh along that, instead of the Simple Deform.

Answer 2

One way you can get this is like so:

1. add a plane and subdivide it

2. press ctrl-b to bevel it like so

3. change bevel settings like so:

affect: vertices change shape until it is a circle

4. select the most inner vertex of the circle

5. select more

6. select similar like this:

7. hit x -> delete vertices

8. Tab -> object mode

9. add simple deform modifier, bend, y

10. tab -> edit mode -> A -> select all

11. G->X -> move to right (y line left from plane)

12. R->X -> 90 and change axis on modifier to z

result: