mirror large assembly

Has anyone been successfull in Mirroring/deriving a large assembly.

Without the need to mirror all the part and then reassemble them.

Thanks

 

I've never had much luck mirroring subs. If you select the apply mates
options,
components are likely to fly all over the place. You will need to either
fix or
remate the mirrored components. Keep in mind that if you make changes to
the mates, etc on original subassemblies, the changes will not carry over to
the mirrored subs. In certain situations, if components are not left/right
versions,
a symmetry mate may be better for you.
Definitely back up your main assembly file before experimenting.
If things blow up, the undo command .. doesn't :>)
The implementation of mirroring in swx is only about 20%, and there
has been very little progress in the last couple of releases.

wish i had better news
bill

 

I had mirrored a few components not anything large 5 at most, recently. And
reattach mates was able to mate the mirrored components atleast between
themselves pretty well, all the parts were mirrored as instances of the
origionals.

Corey

 

If mirroring assemblies, be sure to use mates that can be symmetrical, do
not mate to planes or edges. I have mirrored sub-assemblies, 30 parts deep,
by using the correct mates. This was using mainly sketch mates. If sharing,
be sure to name the mate sketches, someone may think that the extra sketches
are not needed and delete them!