Sheetmetal Mirrored Instances

[timmerator]

Has anyone found a good way to make a mirrored part/instance in sheetmetal?
I have had difficulty when creating an instance that I want to be handed, in that, the model will flop back and forth every time I regenerate the instance because of the negative angle I put in the table... Thoughts would be appreciated

 

[sonics]

Have you tried the Feature Operations feature? Go to EDIT, FEATURE OPERATION< MIRROR (OR COPY). Play around with this command a little. You can even copy or mirror a feature with or without associations.

Sonics

 

[AHA-D]

Last time I had a go at it I found that sheetmetal was not that good with mirrored features. Flat to round transitions wouldn't mirror, but some simpler things also failed. The way I understand it ProE is trying to mirror too much "surrounding" (sketch, parameters, ...) and fails. Although much improved the same thing went for patterns.


Alex

 

[mstols]

timmerator,

in the family table window, go to TOOLS, click on ABSOLUTE / RELATIVE DIMENSION VALUES. That should solve your problem with the part flipping over when you regenerate.

 

[hopper213]

I use file>mirror part in WF4 I believe.


Then you get some nice options. Make it dependent on the other part or independent. I think you need to open the mirrored part and regen>save to make sure it updates though.