Mirrored Components

Why is it that this never recreates the mates that I want. I don't know how
it works when you actually need mirrored components but alot of the time I
have instanced mirrors. Any part that is mirrored has absolutely no mates
attached to it. Not even between the parts that are within the mirror.
Surely atleast the mates between them should carry over. Does anyone know
if it ever actually reattaches the mates.

Corey

 

I don't have an answer, but at least your parts aren't skewing when they
mirror. Mine are imported and often get thrown off by a fraction of a degree
and sometimes get oriented in some bizarre fashion. And yes I have an SPR
assigned and no I am not holding my breath. I believe it only recreates mate
between the mirrored components themselved. It doesn't create mates between
mirrored components and components that were already there.

 

When mirroring instances I can't even get it to do this.

 

if you think about it, it is a very difficult problem to mirror the mates in
a general case.
Do you know if other cads (Pro/E...) can mirror sub-assemblies and mate them
correctly?

 

No, it's not perfect. Yes, in many cases you are better off not trying to
have it recreate the mates. But, in some cases it gets most or all of the
mates which can save a lot of time. The new mate reattachment makes it
pretty simple to fix the ones that didn't come through.

Are you suggesting that they completely remove the option to reattach the
mates even though it is not 100%?

JJ

 

Whoops! That last line should have read "... just because it is not 100%?".

On second thought, I probably should not have posted it at all because it
sounds antagonistic which it was not meant to be. Everyone has the right to
gripe and vent. It just irks me when I think someone is going to push for
removal of functionality that I find useful.

JJ

 

Naaah, I wouldn't say to have it removed if it works atleast sometimes. I
don't think it has ever worked for me so I am quite disapointed. I am sure
everyone understands that. I guess I am just pushing for it to function
more consistently.

Corey