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Using the Mirror tools

Using the Mirror tools - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Mirror tools

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- The mirror command inside of SOLIDWORKS allows us to take one sketch entity or multiple sketch entities, and just mirror it over a center line. To do so, I have this sketch entity here I want to mirror over one of these lines. If you click on the Mirror command up here at the top, notice I've got these already selected in this box. If you didn't, you can just go ahead and select them now. And this tool is pretty self-explanatory. You pick which entities you want to mirror and you choose what you want to mirror about. In this case here, I'm going to choose this. Click on OK, and quickly it mirrors it directly over there. If I happen to move this shape, it still mirrors it over it. Adjusts on-the-fly based upon being mirrored. Same thing over here. Select an entity or not, I can select it afterwards. Choose to mirror about this line here, it drops it down here, click OK, and there it is. Now I can move this one around and it moves it both on this side, as well as on that side of the…

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