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jzhang-31-Visitor
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January 22, 2014
Question

how to save as new mirror part in different planes

  • January 22, 2014
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When I save as "mirror part", there are no options for mirroring plane, it looks alway mirror in a default plan or coordinate system.

Is there a way to select different plane as in model operation?

Thanks

2 replies

Mahesh_Sharma
Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
April 7, 2014

Hi Jack,

As Steven mentioned currently there is no option to define references when saving part as "Mirror part". You can vote for the Product Idea submitted by Steven here.

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    dgschaefer21-Topaz II
    21-Topaz II
    April 9, 2014

    There is, but it takes creating a temporary assy.

    1. Make the assy and assemble your source part
    2. Select "Component Create" and "part" as the type, "mirror" as the Sub-type
    3. In the "Mirror Part" dialog, select the mirror type and uncheck "Placement Dependant" to avoid making the mirrored part a child of the assy.
    4. Pick the part you want to mirror
    5. Pick a plane to mirror about. If you pick a plane in the target pat itself then the new mirrored part will not be a child of the assy and the assy will not be needed to keep it up to date.
    6. Select OK to create the part
    7. Open the mirrored part and save it.
    8. Discard the temp assy.
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      dgschaefer21-Topaz II
      21-Topaz II
      December 13, 2018

      I was reminded of this post because @sxw9637 Kudo'd it.  The fact of the matter is that, while this method works, it does not produce a different orientation or geometry than simply using the File > Save As > Mirror command.

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      sxw96371-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      December 13, 2018

      I used the method a few times yesterday, it worked well.  I was able to mirror the part about whichever plane I needed to, which was different each time since the part to be mirrored to make a right/left, then front/back, and top/bottom (total of 8 unique parts).

       

      Using the SaveAs Mirror command didn't give me the option to select which plane to mirror about.

       

      Only complaint was when editing the new mirrored components, if the feature being edited was before the mirror feature in the model tree, you would be editing it on the un-mirrored version and have to think about the mirroring(s), since the thing you were editing would now show at the other end of the part.  I.e., just like editing an earlier feature makes the model roll back in the tree to that point, the same is true when editing something before the mirror feature, and it can be somewhat confusing.

       

      Using Creo 4.

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