From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Using the Mirror tools

Using the Mirror tools - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Using the Mirror tools

“

- [Instructor] There are several different mirror commands inside of SolidWorks. In this movie, we're going to be covering the sketch mirror tool. Now, we also have a feature mirror tool, as well as a body mirror tool and you can mirror things in any one of these methods. So if you're trying to create an extruded body, for instance, I can mirror over this triangle here and extrude it out and now, I have two individual bodies, but I could also do that as a solid. So I'd generally recommend trying to keep your sketches very simple and then, doing any of those mirror commands actually as individual mirror features. when you actually have a solid, but you can do it either way. And so, right now, let's focus on doing it in or mirroring it inside of a sketch. So, the first thing I need to do is turn on the tool, oo here's Mirror Entities right up here at the top. The first question is what are my entities to mirror. I…

Contents