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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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- [Instructor] SolidWorks has several different mirror commands and the one that we're going to be looking at in this movie is going to be the Sketch mirror command. So the first thing you need is a centerline or something I need to mirror over and secondly we need some object to mirror. So I'm going to go up here first to "mirror entities" and my first question is what are my entities to mirror. I'm going to go ahead and select all these lines that make up this triangle, notice they show up over here. And then choose a mirror about line. So in this case I'm going to choose this line right here and it gives me a preview of what's going to happen so I'm going to take these entities over here, mirror them across this line and put them right over here. Click okay, and there we have it. Now the cool thing about the mirror command is anything that I change on the right will automatically change on the left, because these are mirrored entities. So if I want to add a dimension or change…

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