Mirror Sheet Metal Part Solidworks

When you mirror a sheet metal part many of the bends are mirrored as well.

Mirror sheet metal part solidworks.

In an open part document click a model face or plane about which to mirror the part. How complex you want your part to be. Anything is possible if from the beginning you model your part correctly. We use mirror features in almost all our parts.

Click insert mirror part. 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. To mirror a sheet metal part. A new part window appears and the insert part propertymanager appears.

Cutting across sheet metal bends you can make cuts across bend lines. I usually get around this by creating left and right hand configurations. In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane. However this is not ideal from a file management point of view.

To create a mirrored sheet metal part. Those bends are extended. If you create a right hand version of a left hand sheet metal part by mirroring the part in an assembly the mirrored part cannot be unfolded. You can copy the features of the original part to the mirrored part by breaking the link to the original part.

To mirror a body in a sheet metal part. A new part window appears. The copied sheet metal features are added to the featuremanager design tree of the new part. In an existing sheet metal part click mirror on the features toolbar or click insert pattern mirror mirror.

Click insert mirror part. To create a mirrored part. If a message appears that says sheet metal features cannot be mirrored individually click ok. If a message appears that says sheet metal features cannot be mirrored individually click ok.

In an existing sheet metal part click mirror on the features toolbar or click insert pattern mirror mirror. To create a mirrored derived part. In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane. This step is crucial because otherwise the mirror part feature will be unavailable.

Sheet metal parts can only be mirrored using as reference plane a fixed face of the solid that represent the plane of symmetry of the part.