divorcing a mirrored assembly part

[drvogler]

Hey guys,



I've got what could basically be described as a drill housing. I
was creating the right half, and letting the left half reference the
right half. I've got everything down to the point that they each
need their own special features. Glue grooves, bosses, etc...



They need to get a divorce now, and I'm getting the "Cannot mirror some features of this part" in a copy mirrored part.



I could do the tried and true mirror geom, create a unique left where I
cut away the right half and add special features. And do a unique
right by cutting away the left, the same way.



Then never touch my "master mirror geom part"... But that seems kind of clunky.



I also don't think I like the export IGES to reimport for a unique left



How is the clued public doing this nowadays? BTW, I'm on 2001.



Dave

 

[Moroso]

I used to create my mirrored parts by creating an assy then assy in ex. the right side(once the right side was as far as I wanted to take it) then create a mirrored part in assy for the left side.


I would call up the left side partand save it thne wipe the assy out of memory so it didn't exist, the 2 parts are now independent to eachother.


For your case maybe try exporting a neutral file, this way you unfortunately lose the history but you retain the datum planes etc...

 

[drvogler]

Yeah,



Thanks Moroso, I thought of that as well. I wish there was a way
to keep the 97% that is the same referenced to each other, and keep the
left and right side unique features in seperate models.



I also thought about using a family table, but there are _lots_ of
features and surfaces in this thing. And I don't really relish
the idea of trying to manage such a massive table.



So it sound like once I have them seperated, they are truly
independent, unless I want to go with the "master model" in the middle
(which will never be touched again)...



Dave

 

[amt_hellas]

If both parts are in the same assembly, you could create relations in the assembly to have one part reference dimensions from the other.