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Use the Mirror command - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS
Use the Mirror command
- [Instructor] For this video, we're going to talk about design elegance, as well as the Mirror command. So right here on the screen you can see I've got a pretty basic plate here with four holes in the corners, and notice the right hand side and left hand side are symmetrical, as well as the top and bottom of this is also symmetrical. So, in reality, I could probably design just one quarter of this part and then use the Mirror command to mirror it over to the left and then mirror down, right? So, let's take a look at how we could do that. So, right over here, instead of designing the entire part as one sketch, like I have, I spin it around, let's just go ahead and just refine this sketch a little bit so that I'm only looking at one quarter of it. Let's use the Line command here and go from this edge here to the origin and then come up here to that line there, and let's use the Trim Entity command and let's go…
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