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Assembly mirror, how to control orientation of asymmetric parts in a mirrored subassembly?
John_vd_Werff
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When using the assembly mirror feature to mirror a subassembly I often see parts with a wrong orientation. And I can't figure out how to change the orientation of those parts.
The placement type option in the mirror strategy is grayed out for parts within the subassembly. What am I missing?
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Happens to me too, curious to see the answer...
Excellent post. I saw this feature demoed in an Onshape video of an RC car. They had done this automatically to mirror the left rear suspension components to the right side and mirrored like 20 or 30 parts all at once.
I was just thinking "How do we know it all came out properly?"
Your image here captures that problem perfectly.
I would make sure to report all such issues to Support.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
Reported the issue to support.
I found that this problem occures if a part in the subassembly is assymetric. The green part in the image below mirrored correctly until I added a hole on one side of the part.