How To Mirror A Sheet Metal Part In Solidworks

The part appears in the graphics area mirrored around the plane.

How to mirror a sheet metal part in solidworks. To mirror a sheet metal part. The source part is visible in the graphics area. In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane. Click insert mirror part.

In solidworks we often run into situations like in the situation with this hex cap screw where we need to make both a left hand and a right hand version of the part. A new part opens. In an existing sheet metal part click mirror on the features toolbar or click insert pattern mirror mirror. Hi i am trying to mirror a simple part using the sheet metal features and keep coming up with this error to mirror a sheet metal part please select a face of the sheet metal part as the mirror plane face.

In an existing sheet metal part click mirror on the features toolbar or click insert pattern mirror mirror. If a message appears that says. If that s the case what we can do is we can go into our solidworks environment and choose a plane that we want to mirror the part. In the insert part propertymanager.

Click a model face or plane about which to mirror the part. To mirror a body in a sheet metal part. Under link click break link to original part. You can also select unlocked properties which lets you edit the sheet metal definition in the mirrored part.

In a sheet metal part select a plane or planar surface and click insert mirror part. In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane. Under transfer select sheet metal information if you want to transfer the sheet metal and flat pattern information from the original part to the mirrored part such as fixed face grain direction bend lines and bounding box. 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.

In the insert part propertymanager.