Is there a way to flip sketch entities?

skybrian

The "transform" tool lets you translate or rotate sketch entities, but I don't see a way to flip them. Is there an easy way to do this?

(The "mirror" tool does something different. It's for duplicating sketch entities and creating constraints between them and the originals. I mirror the entities and delete the originals, but I'd lose the original constraints.)

glen_dewsbury

Can be accomplished by not deleting original sketch entities. Mirror and change originals to construction.

romeograham

Another option is to use a Mate Connector as your sketch plane. Then you can redefine the Mate Connector by changing its orientation (change z direction, x/y position etc). The sketch entities will take the Mate Connector as their local origin and will change position accordingly.

The other thing you can do (though you have less control over rotational position) if you used a regular plane for your sketch: change the normal direction of the plane in the dialog for the plane creation. That will flip the Z direction of the plane - and any sketch entities will flip also. Depending on how you constrained and dimensioned the sketch, you may have to fix some things up.

bård_olsen

I found the easiest way to achieve this was to make a copy of the original group of sketches , make a line between them, and mirror on the line, it created a new group of entities on the opposite side, flipped and rotated horizontally and vertically.  At least it solved the problem for me.

josh_mccullough080

bård_olsen said:

I found the easiest way to achieve this was to make a copy of the original group of sketches , make a line between them, and mirror on the line, it created a new group of entities on the opposite side, flipped and rotated horizontally and vertically.  At least it solved the problem for me.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to "copy" the original constraints.