Make mirrored part a new part

john_lombardo

I added a plane (plane1) over which to mirror a part. Then deleted the original part. Now there remains a "ghost" (for lack of better word) on the front plane. 

How can the mirrored part be moved to the front plane along with deleting plane1? in other words, I want to clean this part up so it looks like a new original.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/41e37808df9fac617da22443/w/3b22eacc992851cdbc7eb510/e/21fb5dc39d2b3daf928bf49e

steve_shubin

@john_lombardo

YOU ASKED — How can the mirrored part be moved to the Front plane ?

In this case I would go into the features list and extrude in the opposite direction. That is, I would alter the direction of my original extrusions, so that they go in the opposite of what I had first made. I think this would be the best way to — CLEAN THIS PART UP, as you said. See the link in this post.

Take note of how the number of steps in the features list has been reduced as a part of cleaning up.

If I wanted something other than the largest surface of the part coincident with the front plane, then I would employ Second End Position on the various extrusions of my part

A sidenote — your sketch is not fully defined. The lines and points in your sketch are blue. Take some time to fully define your sketch. Otherwise you might accidentally drag elements of your sketch around. Fully defining your sketch would definitely be part of cleaning your document up.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3f9ca748fc5a9d26b2c1d289/w/48d7b60500174bc483d8046f/e/e4167596a3ef6f51ebaad298

steve_shubin

@john_lombardo

this sketch is fully defined other than one point that isn’t critical. Everything is black except the single point

romeograham

The "ghosted" features are just the sketches you used to create the original part. They are required to create the Mirrored version, since they were used to create the original features.

You can hide them by clicking the "eye" icon that appears next to each feature in the Feature List:


The "ghosted" shape that shows with Sketch 2 is there because you created that sketch on a face of the model, instead of on a Plane.

Romeo

steve_shubin

@john_lombardo

YOU ASKED — How can the mirrored part be moved to the Front plane ?

In this case I would go into the features list and extrude in the opposite direction. That is, I would alter the direction of my original extrusions, so that they go in the opposite of what I had first made. I think this would be the best way to — CLEAN THIS PART UP, as you said. See the link in this post.

Take note of how the number of steps in the features list has been reduced as a part of cleaning up.

If I wanted something other than the largest surface of the part coincident with the front plane, then I would employ Second End Position on the various extrusions of my part

A sidenote — your sketch is not fully defined. The lines and points in your sketch are blue. Take some time to fully define your sketch. Otherwise you might accidentally drag elements of your sketch around. Fully defining your sketch would definitely be part of cleaning your document up.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3f9ca748fc5a9d26b2c1d289/w/48d7b60500174bc483d8046f/e/e4167596a3ef6f51ebaad298

steve_shubin

@john_lombardo

this sketch is fully defined other than one point that isn’t critical. Everything is black except the single point

john_lombardo

Thank you much for providing a clearer picture of how to create a mirrored part that can be further edited independently of the original.

john_lombardo

When making mirrored parts that must differ in some features, It seems like it is best to mirror off one of the major planes (like the front) and chose "New" for type of mirror. Then additional features could be added independently to each of the two parts by adding sketches to specific part surfaces or by controlling extrusions of sketches on the mirror plane. I know this seems elementary to experienced users, but it was a Eureka! moment for me! Thanks again to all who responded.