Solidworks Mirror Sheet Metal

Those bends are extended.

Solidworks mirror sheet metal.

The only bends that are not mirrored are those that are normal to and coincident to the mirror plane. In the propertymanager select a plane of symmetry or a planar face as the mirror face plane. In a sheet metal part select a plane or planar surface and click insert mirror part. I want to design the castle out of cardboard so that i can build it with her out of old boxes.

To mirror a sheet metal part. In an existing sheet metal part click mirror on the features toolbar or click insert pattern mirror mirror. 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. A new part opens.

Many people forget that solidworks sheet metal functionality is not explicitly for sheet metal. You can use mirror part to create a part that is an opposite hand version an existing sheet metal part. If a message appears that says sheet metal features cannot be mirrored individually click ok. When you mirror features and bodies in a sheet metal part many of the bends are mirrored as well.