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Mirror - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Mirror

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- [Instructor] Looking for symmetry when you're designing a part is definitely one of the most productive things you can be doing. The Mirror command allow us to multiply our work. To get started to use the command, let's go up to Mirror under your feature toolbar. Click on Mirror. Now the first question is, which is our face or plane that we would like to mirror something over. Now we, by default, have the standard three front, top and right planes I could choose. And if I want to mirror over one of those I can totally do that, that's fine. I can also choose individual faces, so I can choose a face like this one or this one. Or even this one here. Or this one here, there's a lot of options for choosing a face. Now the other option I have is I can add reference geometry. I can add a plane. I can add a plane between this face here and this one right here. Place it right in the middle and I can mirror something around that as well or over that. So here is my first example. So click on…

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