How To Mirror A Part In Solidworks Assembly

To create a mirrored derived part.

How to mirror a part in solidworks assembly. You can use the mirrored part in an assembly without having to use the original part. In our design field we see our part which we can expand to view various things. Both allow you to mirror parts of a sketch about a straight line as shown in the beam profile below. When i do the mirrored part opens up in its own window and i can select what properties i want to transfer.

In an open part document click a model face or plane about which to mirror the part. In an assembly you can add components by mirroring existing components parts or subassemblies. There are two mirror functions available in while working with 2d sketches mirror entities and dynamic mirror. A new part window appears.

Many users have dabbled with the solidworks mirror assembly. Open the part select a plane select the menu command insert mirror part you must have the plane selected or the command will be greyed out. Was this tutorial useful. Expand and select the front plane as this is the plane we want to mirror.

You can create opposite hand versions of individual parts. This creates a mirror with only a single parent the original part. The new components can be a copy or an opposite hand version of the seed components. See creating opposite hand versions of parts.

To create the mirrored part you first have to select the face or the plane you want to mirror the part about or else you wont be able to activate the command. The insert part propertymanager appears. Choose the mirror plane and the assembly then click the green arrow if the mirrored assembly has a wrong orientation click on the blue arrow. There are issues with most of the other methods.

Try to change the orientation from the reorient components. In this three minute thursday we re going to dive a little deeper into how to use this simple w. Click insert mirror part. The mirror entities feature can be found under the sketch tab in the command manager or in tools sketch tools mirror.