Make mirrored part a new part

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  romeograham Member, csevp Posts: 657 PRO

  December 2019

  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

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  steve_shubin Member Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭✭

  December 2019 edited December 2019 Answer ✓

  @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
  

  
  

  
  

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  steve_shubin Member Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭✭

  December 2019 edited December 2019 Answer ✓

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

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  john_lombardo Member Posts: 20 EDU

  December 2019

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

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  john_lombardo Member Posts: 20 EDU

  December 2019

  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.  

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