Mirroring

Nov 25, 2003 5 Replies
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I have a bracket that is made up from three different pieces, a plate, a gusset and a shaft holder. these three pieces are then welded together. After the welding is completed we boar out the hole for the shaft and drill two holes for set screw. I create the last two steps of the part (boar for shaft and set screws) in the part assembly. when I create a mirror part of the bracket the shaft boar and the set screws do not carry over to the mirrored part. do I have to make the assembly into one part then do the last two steps. them mirror the part? If I have to create a part out of the assembly how do you do this?



Any other suggestions on how you would do something like this is appreciated.



Thanks



Nathan


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If it is built up from three parts You could try with configurations to use as right and left part instead of mirroring it ....otherwise You can do as You said....save the assembly as a part and then mirror.

Krister L

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I'm pretty sure you would have to resave.

Generally, I try to use configurations with maybe the base part being a mirror part in these situations.

WT

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"base part being a mirror part in these situations." What do you mean Wayne

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I might have a wlmt that has a base plate and 3 parts welded to the top side. The top parts are all the same parts, so nothing difficult there. However, the base plate is a formed sheetmetal part with several bends in it, thus making a RH/LH part BkUp/BkDn. However, that's not quite so easy to do as a configuration in a part file. You could put in all different features to make the other one, or you could make a mirror part of that particular piece part.

Now, jump to the assy. This is where you would have 2 configurations - RH & LH. In the RH config, the base plate is the original RH part, and the welded on parts are positioned on it properly. In the LH config, the original base plate is suppressed and the opposite "mirror" part is inserted. (Of course, this part would be suppressed in the RH config.) Then the top parts are once again mated to the base plate, which is now the LH part. Some of the mates will most likely have to be new, but maybe some could be just different dimensional values.

The advantage here is that you end up with only one assy file, rather than 2 separate ones.

WT

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