How To Mirror Sheet Metal Piece Inventor

Quick demo for someone on the autodesk forums.

How to mirror sheet metal piece inventor.

This shows how to create an opposite hand version of a part in such a way that the part will update based on. You can mirror part sheet metal surface and assembly features to create and maintain complex symmetrical features quickly. Any work plane or planar face can serve as the plane of symmetry to mirror. Get answers fast from autodesk support staff and product experts in the forums.

I can do it on the original one just fine but the mirrored part doesn t think it is a sheet metal part just a solid and therefore has no flat pattern. In a multibody part select the solid body to attach the mirror feature to. In part 22 of the autodesk inventor 101. In an assembly double click the sheet metal part in the browser to activate and double click the flat pattern node.

The basics series we ll take a look at how to use the basic functionality of the sheet metal environment in autodes. In the creation pro. I have a sheet metal part in an assembly which is mirrored. In an assembly you can mirror only sketched features.

I want to do a folded and flat pattern drawing on both pieces. Save and close to return to the assembly. If i convert it to a shee. A mirrored feature is a reverse copy of the selected feature.

In this tutorial we will learn about the basic techniques related to autodesk inventor s sheet metal functionality by modelling a cover.