I have an assembly where i am creating hydraulic hoses and since they are such a PITA to do I would like to mirror those possible. I am attempting to do a mirror opposite and it looks good in the preview, but the final product doesn't work. Can someone make a suggestion as to why?
John,
This is what is puzzling me, that is what I am doing. I have attempted both simply selecting "opposite" and working through the 4 options. As you can see in the first screen shot, the preview is giving me the desired configuration. Then when I accept it and rebuild the hose appears to add the additional mirror to come out the back side of the hose end.
The part that I really don't get is why does it show correct when I accept it but then change when it is finished.
Mirroring parts in Assemblies have always given me hemorrhoids - to a point where it's much quicker dropping a mirrored part in and adding a few mates, it's one of those features, easy to use I'll progress, give me issues, I'll go back to the way I was doing things before.........
That might be the best way to handle this, mirror the part and assemble. The hoses are modeled in context as virtual parts to save on the mating but that wouldn't be the biggest loss.
I am not sure how you have your parts mated but if you can make a reference plane in your virtual part to the plane you are trying to mirror, you could just mirror the body of your hose in your virtual part of the hose. I am assuming since it is a virtual part that it is just there for visual purposes, so that would be a quick and easy way to replicate from one side to the other.
That sounds good Paul. I am planning to do something of the sort. Yes, this is just for parts pages in the manual. An attempt to visually let the customer know where the lines go.
It would be nice to know why the mirror doesn't work as expected.
In the preview pane it looks correct then jumps, my 2 pennies suggestion create the mirrored version of it. In the preview taskbar below the list is the option to create opposite hand version of part. That is what Iuse in this situation. Although I have to be honest I have never seen the preview be correct and the final be messed up like that before.
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Select one part at a time and hit the arrow keys at the bottom to rotate the part