Comments on: SolidWorks 2008: Inserting and Mirroring Parts

By: Domain Names

Domain Names — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:09:20 +0000

Try Solid Works 2009, it's awsome… New features too endless to list!

By: majestyk89

majestyk89 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:55:29 +0000

This works great with solid models, but does this procedures works with sheet metal parts? I have tried to find a way to do the left and right hand of a sheet metal part but i cant find a way around it. Thanks. Great tutorial tutorial by the way.

By: Ricky Jordan

Ricky Jordan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:12:56 +0000

Patrick,

I just now finally had the opportunity to test this. I have a Vista 64 bit Test machine and was able to view my flash videos without any problem using IE (which was installed by our IT group).

I'll have to do some more investigation into 64bit Browsers...but so far...I'm not seeing any issues.

Ricky

By: Ricky Jordan

Ricky Jordan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:46:52 +0000

Thomas,

Glad you found the post useful! And don't worry….unless your instructor told you to NOT use the Mirror command…it isn't cheating! Let's just call it efficient use of the software.

I first learned SolidWorks TOTALLY on my own 12 years ago when I was in college. The web was still way to “young” to have much content and on top of that SolidWorks itself was a pretty young package at that time. That experience is part of the reason I have this site today.

I'm always looking for suggestions on new topics so as you are learning SolidWorks, if you have any ideas…e-mail them to me.

Happy learning!

Ricky

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:25:41 +0000

YOU SIR, JUST SAVED ME A GOOD 2 HOURS OF MODELING. Granted, I am a college student so in some ways you might have just helped me cheat, but oh well! Thank you so much!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:43:41 +0000

Please note that since SolidWorks works best in a 64-bit environment, and this blog is for SW users, you should probably assume they are wanting to view your video in a 64-bit browser. 64-bit browsers do not support Flash yet, so perhaps a different way of delivering video would be well advised. Thanks.

By: Ricky Jordan

Ricky Jordan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:56:47 +0000

Ernest,

I just tested this with SolidWorks 2009 (It is the only version I have installed). I was able to dynamically change the model using Instant3D but ONLY by dragging on the blue "dots" at the end of the dimensions which as you have said are located in the original part location. This was only possible if I selected "Break link to original part" when I created the mirror part. Does this help?

If you don't want to break the link to the original part you will have to make the changes to the original part which of course will propagate to the mirror part.

Does this help? Let me know if you have additional questions.

Ricky

By: Ernest Stranz

Ernest Stranz — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:23:37 +0000

When I have the mirrored part I am unable to make dynamic changes even thought the Instant3D button is selected. Even if I attempt to use the move/copy body command I am still unable to make dynamic changes unless I roll back behind the move/copy body command and then the part goes back to its origianal non-mirrored form. Any suggestions? Thanks.

By: Ricky Jordan

Ricky Jordan — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:13:11 +0000

Hi Doug,

The last 1/3 of the video shows a mirrored part. Are there any additional features of the mirror part command you were wanting to see?

Best Regards,

Ricky Jordan

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:54:58 +0000

Thanks for the cool video! Is there any way we could get you to do a video of a mirrored part?

Thanks again,

Doug