Improve/fix the sheetmetal mirror feature

[Robrecht]

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders.

All industries that create, edit and use sheetmetal parts in Creo Parametric.

2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running?
Creo Parametric 7.0.8.0 up to 9.0.0.0

3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.

In Sheetmetal parts if dependent copy is selected in a new mirror feature, both partially and fully dependent options stay greyed out and are not clickable.

Meanwhile in Modeling parts if dependent copy is selected in a new mirror feature, you can select either partially dependent or fully dependent.

Note: this bug has existed since 2014 and has never been fixed:

CS166281 - Mirror feature option "Fully dependent with options to vary" is grayed out in Sheetmetal ... 

Once a mirror feature is created in a Sheetmetal part and you edit the bend position type of the original feature (for example Flat 1 in the screenshot ) then the mirrored feature is not automatically updated:

This can lead to dangerous/costly mistakes if a designer is not paying attention and/or assumes the sheetmetal mirror feature automatically updates its children features!

On the other hand, you can also for example edit the height of the flat/flange feature that is created by the mirror feature (for example "Flat 1 (2)" in the screenshot below) without receiving any warnings about breaking dependencies, while with a Modeling part you receive this warning after changing a parameter in the child feature of a mirror feature:

And lastly we noticed that if we go to the mirror feature after editing a feature that is created before the mirror feature,

that the "Reapply mirror" does not appear in the mirror feature in the sheetmetal part. The same procedure in a Modeling part does give us this option in the mirror feature:

4. What is the use case for your organization?
To improve the ease of use while creating and editing sheetmetal parts

5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization?
More robust mirror functionality will save time and money

[olivierlp]

Thank you @Robrecht for your idea. Based on the information you provided, we are acknowledging it as the Community management team. This is not a commitment from the Product team. Other users may comment and vote your idea up.

[Robrecht]

Small note - I accidently filled in the wrong info under the first point. It should be:

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders.

All industries that create, edit and use sheetmetal parts in Creo Parametric

[olivierlp]

Thank you @Robrecht for your idea. Based on the information you provided, we are acknowledging it as the Community management team. This is not a commitment from the Product team. Other users may comment and vote your idea up.

[olivierlp]

@Robrecht I corrected your point #1 in the initial idea according to your last post, even if it does not really answer the question.