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Use the Mirror command to duplicate objects across a mirror plane.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
4 min.
Transcript
00:04
The mirror command in the design workspace creates a set of identical faces,
00:08
features, bodies or components
00:11
that are relative to a plane or planar face
00:14
and can really help speed up your workflow.
00:18
In this first example,
00:19
we want to mirror this driven gear and combine it into one single body.
00:25
First
00:26
go to the crate drop down in the solid tab, then click on the mirror command.
00:33
The mirror dialogue box that appears presents you with three options.
00:38
The first is to select the type
00:41
which is either the faces, bodies features or components.
00:47
As you want to mirror this body, select body from the drop down,
00:51
then click on the object itself.
00:54
The third option is asking you to select a mirror
00:56
plane which can be a plane or a plainer face.
01:01
Click on the mirror plane select box,
01:03
rotate the view,
01:05
then select the face.
01:09
You may now notice we have 1/4 option in the dialogue box.
01:13
This is because the mirrored component has adjacent faces
01:16
and therefore
01:17
gives us the opportunity to either join into one body or create a new one.
01:23
Leave us join for now and press. OK.
01:27
Now you can see we have created a mirrored
01:28
feature that is contained within a single body.
01:35
Now, I want to show you when you might want to create a new body. Instead of combining
01:39
in this example,
01:41
you're going to mimic the water in the outlet on the
01:43
right hand side to be on the left hand side,
01:49
go ahead and bring up the mirror command again
01:51
this time by pressing S on your keyboard to bring up the search tool.
01:55
Then search for mirror,
01:58
click on the command and you'll see the same dialogue box as before
02:03
in the browser tree.
02:04
You may notice that we are now working with components, not bodies.
02:08
So make sure components are selected from the drop down menu
02:13
for the object. You can select this existing component
02:16
and again,
02:17
click on mirror plane select button
02:19
and this time select the origin plane
02:23
as this assembly was built directly in the center of our origin.
02:27
We know that the mirror command will produce a
02:29
result of equal length on the opposite side.
02:32
This is something to keep in mind when mirroring of planes.
02:36
As you can see,
02:37
you have now successfully mirrored the water in the
02:39
outlet with a new component in your browser tree.
Video transcript
00:04
The mirror command in the design workspace creates a set of identical faces,
00:08
features, bodies or components
00:11
that are relative to a plane or planar face
00:14
and can really help speed up your workflow.
00:18
In this first example,
00:19
we want to mirror this driven gear and combine it into one single body.
00:25
First
00:26
go to the crate drop down in the solid tab, then click on the mirror command.
00:33
The mirror dialogue box that appears presents you with three options.
00:38
The first is to select the type
00:41
which is either the faces, bodies features or components.
00:47
As you want to mirror this body, select body from the drop down,
00:51
then click on the object itself.
00:54
The third option is asking you to select a mirror
00:56
plane which can be a plane or a plainer face.
01:01
Click on the mirror plane select box,
01:03
rotate the view,
01:05
then select the face.
01:09
You may now notice we have 1/4 option in the dialogue box.
01:13
This is because the mirrored component has adjacent faces
01:16
and therefore
01:17
gives us the opportunity to either join into one body or create a new one.
01:23
Leave us join for now and press. OK.
01:27
Now you can see we have created a mirrored
01:28
feature that is contained within a single body.
01:35
Now, I want to show you when you might want to create a new body. Instead of combining
01:39
in this example,
01:41
you're going to mimic the water in the outlet on the
01:43
right hand side to be on the left hand side,
01:49
go ahead and bring up the mirror command again
01:51
this time by pressing S on your keyboard to bring up the search tool.
01:55
Then search for mirror,
01:58
click on the command and you'll see the same dialogue box as before
02:03
in the browser tree.
02:04
You may notice that we are now working with components, not bodies.
02:08
So make sure components are selected from the drop down menu
02:13
for the object. You can select this existing component
02:16
and again,
02:17
click on mirror plane select button
02:19
and this time select the origin plane
02:23
as this assembly was built directly in the center of our origin.
02:27
We know that the mirror command will produce a
02:29
result of equal length on the opposite side.
02:32
This is something to keep in mind when mirroring of planes.
02:36
As you can see,
02:37
you have now successfully mirrored the water in the
02:39
outlet with a new component in your browser tree.
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