Mirror Sheet Metal Body Solidworks

In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane.

Mirror sheet metal body solidworks.

Technical customer support engineer solidworks americas. Center the plane to mirror the edge flange between the two edges of the base flange green arrows. Now you insert a mirror part with the sheet metal information option checked and still linked to the parent part fig. To mirror a body in a sheet metal part.

If a message appears that says sheet metal features cannot be mirrored individually click ok. Mario iocco is a veteran cad user. Like show 0 likes 0. In my cardboard castle design i used the mirror body command in both ways.

In an existing sheet metal part click mirror on the features toolbar or click insert pattern mirror mirror. As deepak noted the plane can be used for mirroring features but not the base flange. The new body created from the mirror feature will be linked to the original body s sheet metal feature. Introduced in solidworks 2015 when creating mirrored versions of sheet metal parts it is now possible to transfer the sheet metal and flat pattern information from the original part to the mirrored part saving you a huge amount of time during the drafting phase.

This solidworks training video covers mirroring sheet metal bodies in solidworks as well. This video is unavailable. In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane. If a message appears that says sheet metal features cannot be mirrored individually click ok.

Do not select the edge created by the edge flange as one of the two edges red arrow. By default when creating a sheet metal body the thickness of the body is controlled by the part thickness. I used the mirror body with merge turned on when creating my front wall with the gate. To mirror a sheet metal feature.

To mirror a sheet metal part. I modeled half the wall and then mirrored it to make the opposite side match. Written by todd domke on june 6 2016 leave a comment.