Mirror in assembly

stuart_hatherway

Hi

I'm trying to mirror a part in assembly but can see how. I've tried mirroring in part studio but cant separate it from the original or delete the original

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

mthiesmeyer

Hi Stuart,

I'm not quite sure if this is what you're looking for, but I took a stab at what you described here. I mirrored the part in the part studio and then used the `Delete part` command to remove the original. Can you explain why if you wanted the mirrored part, but not the original, you didn't model the original part in the mirrored orientation?

Thanks,

Mike

stuart_hatherway

Thank you Mike.

That's worked,I hadn't noticed but as i was selecting the mirror plane the part mirror was jumping from NEW to ADD!. I want both parts but as separate drawings as I need to further modify only one.

Thanks again

owen_sparks

Hi and welcome.

Please have a scan through of this first:-

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9107/forum-post-checklist 

Af first glance it sounds like you're doing a mirror "add" rather than "new" but it's impossible to help without a little more info.

Cheers,

Owen S.

stuart_hatherway

Thank you Owen for coming back to me so quickly. I was using Mirror new selecting the part as entities to mirror and selecting an end face for the plane. I have a part that i have designed and need a separate part that is a mirrored version. If I've read up to date this cant be done at the assembly stage and has to be done in the part studio. Is there a simple way of mirroring the part without keeping the original. If you hadn't guessed I'm new to 3D cad

Regards Stuart

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/d445ac05de024656acfef2dd/w/98189d5e671796993ed0b288/e/130ba18464180eeca81be10c

mthiesmeyer

Hi Stuart,

I'm not quite sure if this is what you're looking for, but I took a stab at what you described here. I mirrored the part in the part studio and then used the `Delete part` command to remove the original. Can you explain why if you wanted the mirrored part, but not the original, you didn't model the original part in the mirrored orientation?

Thanks,

Mike

stuart_hatherway

Thank you Mike.

That's worked,I hadn't noticed but as i was selecting the mirror plane the part mirror was jumping from NEW to ADD!. I want both parts but as separate drawings as I need to further modify only one.

Thanks again

billy2

@stuart_ward055 I took a stab at it using @mthiesmeyer approach:

I'm doing everything in a part studio:


Here's the assy:


I'm not sure what you're trying to do. I'm wondering if you should be working in a part studio and forget about the assembly for now. 

In OS, parts that relate to one another should be done in a part studio. Part studio = many parts.

In OS, assys allow your parts to move & instancing (bolts should be instanced). Eventually everything will end up in an assy, but at your chassis level, I'd stick to the part studio.

I'm probably wrong......

stuart_hatherway

Thank you for your input

ron_thatcher

As with evaluating all new CAD systems, I eventually stumble across a limitation that makes the tool useless in order for me to be efficient, and this is one of them. In the other 2 systems I use.. I use mirror and pattern in assemblies all of the time. I would not be able to do my job without this. See you in a few years On-Shape..

steve_shubin

ron_thatcher said:
... I use mirror and pattern in assemblies all of the time. I would not be able to do my job without this.

Linear and circular pattern are in assembly In Onshape

Now about Mirror. Yeah it would be more convenient. I’m sure there’s some here in Onshape that would like it in assembly. But in the mean time, you can get to it via In-Context Editing fairly fast

alnis

Honestly, in my experience working on some projects in SolidWorks for university, while the assembly mirror feature is nice, there are just so many other assembly workflows that are slower and less efficient that I really prefer working on any assembly in Onshape. Pretty much any speed decrease from not having a mirror command is more than made up for with snapping custom parts with mate connectors and the replicate tool. Assembly mirroring would be nice, but I haven't found a case where it really hurts to not have it.