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Originally, Mate connectors were only used for mates, hence the name, but they've come so far since (and more to come). We can't think of a better name so all suggestions are welcome!

Like this?

when is onshape CAM coming to EDU?? isn't it supposed to be there already?

Nah a mate is a pairing, and a connector would be the application that brings the two together. Like Tinder.

No it's a bit more edge case than that even, but something I run into often enough that it's a reason I developed Lefty flip. Say you have a purchased part that comes in only one handed configuration but you need to make left and right handed assemblies to wrap around it. Squirrel cage blowers are my everyday example, they only make em in one spiral for the products we use. To make parts that interact with these, the hole patterns and pockets and features that touch the purchased part won't want to be mirrored, but will be integral to a part which must otherwise be mirrored. So I have to mirror the whole part minus a handful of features on the part.

Lefty Flip enables me to just define all the inverting stuff above the mirror in the tree, and non-inverting stuff below it which makes all the IDs work out upstream in an assembly because the faces are the same just transformed.

Righty Flip would be the opposite direction where you've got your assembly mirror derived studio part with all the faces and features that were mirrored from the original and you want to flip some back the other way because you forgot that you had modeled thread geometry that's now opposite handed and you need the undo button.

It's also quite neutered. You can't even reference a MC to place another MC.

I'd like if any of the 3 "planes" of a MC could be used, anywhere a MC is referenced. Either as a sketch plane, or a mirror plane, etc. Limiting it to the XY "plane" of the MC is annoying, IMO. Thanks.

Easy enough to add explicit MC to any of the main part CL (or directly in the assembly)… You can just create an implicit MC at the origin on the fly in any of the 3 axes so not sure what the big deal is…

I don't work a lot with symmetric assemblies so this hasn't been a huge issue personally but it looks to be nicely implemented!

Named section views in drawings are going to be a lot quicker to setup! Now we just need the ability to control the "regions" that are cut when using multiple section planes!

Also pretty excited to not have to reload the whole render studio to change configuration!

After seeing all of the strange cases that had to be considered with Assembly Mirror I can understand why it took as long as it did to happen. It's a lot to wrap my head around. Glad it's finally here though and the implementation is as thoughtful as ever!