Mirror - more of a useful symmetric tool - common examples...
My conclusion is that engineers / designers should aim for geometry symmetry resulting in at least 2 identical parts, rather than mirroring parts, resulting in 2 not identical but very similar ( and often confusing ) parts. Engineers should make things as simple / low cost as can be right?
Sheet metal component is a poor example as it's unlikely to have a front and back plate that are identical. I include it here as an example of the possible. The copy is a component copy revolved 180 deg but symmetry design makes it a mirror.
Here, the top inserts are not symmetrical - they are (mirrored) parts in an component.Creation sketches ( pair ) had an asymmetrical feature of the radius and subsequent symmetrical cuts in other planes have produced a mirrored 3D part. Interesting that 3D manipulation still keeps their associations. Moved from original creation planes, subsequent symmetric cuts are tricky and time consuming to produce.
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I think you're not the only one who'd like to have this tool in DSmechanical...
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Hi Georg,
Yes, it took me a while to figure out a good working method in DSM to do the above.
I'm firmly of the opinion that mirroring ( making a actual 'mirrored part') unless totally essential, is an admission of inefficient design....sure it may be necessary.
Yes, i'd love to have the mirror command to help me in symmetric parts and of course, in the rare case of a necessary mirrored component.
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Please push this feature request so that the tool may be integrated in the future:
https://designspark.zendesk.com/hc/de/community/posts/211897425-MIRROR-TOOL0 -
Hello Markus,
I see you and I have voted for 'Mirror Tool' under the 'New Feature Request' - that's the most influence i have. It has more votes than an other request at a total of 6 (!) in 3 years - this sadly implies customer commitment to DSM isn't there. In Ansys Discovery Essentials aka Spaceclaim , Mirror is there. Needing the Mirror function is one reason to rent / buy the upgrade.
Yes it would be of big benefit - It's my view that symmetric parts and not mirrored parts are of a bigger importance though and those are fairly possible as in the immediate example above - the wireframe display is very clear what's going on yes? Designing it was initially inefficient and it took quite some time experimenting / determining working rules. Would you like to know.
The Mirror feature would also help in symmetry so i'll always want it.
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