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Flipping and mirroring

Flipping and mirroring - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Flipping and mirroring

- When you're working with shapes, like channel or i-beams, how and where that shape is oriented makes a lot of difference. So, in this case, you see I have this channel around the outside of my part, and by the way, I'm opening 2-3, or 2.3 solid file. And I've already laid out this structural member here, and it's not really the way I want it to be laid out. So, let's go back and edit that structural member. So, go over here to Structural Member number one, and click on "Edit Feature". You can see I've got one group to find here, and these lines make that up. Now, if I come down here to Mirror Profile, and I've got some corner treatments, to take a look at. A bunch of things you can play with. So, click on "Mirror Profile". And notice what happens, it moves it from up to down. But, try the horizontal axis, notice I click on "Horizontal Axis", now instead of flipping it out, it actually flips it in. So all of those little legs of the pieces of channel, are now facing inwards. And…

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