(Optional) If you want to independently edit the features of the mirrored part without affecting the original part, under Link, select Break link to original part.ĥ.

Material: transfers the defined materialĤ.

This is very useful, because you can directly flatten the opposite-hand version.

Sheet metal information: transfers the sheet metal and flat pattern information.

Hole wizard data: useful when creating a drawing, so you can dimension the holes correctly.

Solid bodies: obviously necessary, because otherwise we do not have a solid geometry.

In this case, for the sheet metal part of step 1, I use the following options: Under Transfer, select any combination of items from the source part to be included in the opposite-hand version. This step is crucial, because otherwise the Mirror Part feature will be unavailable.Ī new part window appears and the Insert Part PropertyManager appears.ģ. In an open part document, click a model face or plane about which to mirror the part. This means that the two parts will always match.ġ. By default, the mirrored version is derived from the original version. With the help of Mirror Part you can create a part that is the opposite-hand version of an existing part.

In this tech blog I want to show you the way to create opposite-hand versions of parts directly from part level. This works great, but sometimes you want to create an opposite-hand version beforehand (pun intended), or without the need of creating an assembly. Here you have the possibility to create an opposite-hand version during the definition of this feature. A commonly used method is the Mirror feature at assembly level. Quite often engineers need an opposite-hand version of a part.

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