Mirroring an Assembly

brian_pettey

Can we mirror an assembly?  If not, we need this function ASAP.  We have 4 engineers (4 licenses) using Onshape and we need this function.

owen_sparks

The short answer is not yet though I'm sure the is an IR to vote on.

The longer answer is we can mimic this pretty easily.  Start an in-context edit, mirror the parts, squirt back to the assembly.  Downside is this creates new parts, not instances of existing parts, so If you're driving a BOM then this needs to be accounted for.

Cheers,

Owen S.

Don_Van_Zile

Add your vote to this Improvement Request:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/5763/mirror-feature-for-assembly-workflow#latest

billy2

I'd derive parts into a partstudio called mirror, mirror them, then import them into an assembly. Of course you could always mirror the parts in the original partstudio.

If I'm creating geometry, which I believe mirror does, I relegate these operations to a partstudio. Partstudios make parts, assemblies do not.

To me assemblies have a small army of partstudios that support them. I'm branching out partstudios following Philip's recommendations in his OS for SW users video which is really good. OS is different.

I'm also using a lot of sub-assemblies to also feed a top level assembly.

Maybe I'm wrong, I don't see the urgency for having mirror in assembly. I like the fact that assemblies don't generate parts. 

Lucas_Kuhns

billy2 said:

I like the fact that assemblies don't generate parts. 

I'm not asking for assemblies to generate a new part. A lot of the mirroring we need to do is just using the part in another instance.

shashank_rajesh032

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shashank_rajesh032

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