8 Replies Latest reply on Jan 23, 2018 11:13 AM by Alex Lachance

Why doesn't mirror component work in 2018 SP1.0?

Jory Blagden Jan 23, 2018 9:26 AM

I swear to the Heavenly father that if this software doesn't improve during 2018 this company is going to crap-can it. Almost $10K a year to maintain something that doesn't work.

Simple assembly. A few boards, a few metal legs, and can't even mirror a component correctly. Ran the Rx2018 to capture video. The video is so jumpy that a person can't even tell what is going on in it.

When done capturing video...it tells me it can't be shut down...please shut down. *slams head on desk.

Then is says "click here to browse to the zip file location!" ...and does absolutely nothing.

The "Stability" stake has been driven in this company for the last 12 months by every swinging hammer that I know of....and yet.....we've had it installed a few weeks and are already praying for the release of the next service pack. Absolute crap.

The legs on the right are "mirrored components" of the legs on the left. Doesn't look like a dang mirror to me.

Simple assembly, fully defined.

Mirror Components. Select the plane down the middle and the two legs on the left side.

The beautiful result. I mean, I'm not working but with 9 components in this assy. All are fully defined. No errors or warnings anywhere.

Can anyone explain this glorious phenomenon?

Re: Why doesn't mirror component work in 2018 SP1.0?

Alex Lachance Jan 23, 2018 9:41 AM (in response to Jory Blagden)

The mirror feature has always worked this way. Your component is not symetrical, therefor it cannot be mirrored as you'd like. if you need to do a mirror part, you'll need to move to the second step and then tell it to be the opposite handed version.

Think of it this way, if you built support-1 twice, would you be able to assemble it with the mirrored result. The answer is nope, you couldn't because you need the brackets to be inside. So you go to the second step and have it be made a mirrored part, by having a new configuration or a new part made out of it.

This is step2 I speak of. I don't have 2018 though....
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Re: Why doesn't mirror component work in 2018 SP1.0?

Elmar Klammer Jan 23, 2018 9:39 AM (in response to Jory Blagden)

Hi Jory,

The mirror seems to function right. You need to look up how it works. Click the blue arrow at the top and select the ? to see what options are available.
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Re: Why doesn't mirror component work in 2018 SP1.0?

Alex Lachance Jan 23, 2018 9:43 AM (in response to Jory Blagden)

About the SolidWorks RX, I get that a lot too, I was advised that it should be fixed with 2018 though, I see it isn't...
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Re: Why doesn't mirror component work in 2018 SP1.0?

Jory Blagden Jan 23, 2018 10:08 AM (in response to Jory Blagden)

I guess I just anticipate SW not working so much that when it does I lose my dayum mind. I guess I should use a circular pattern and spin the two legs on the center axis. Then it will give me the result I wanted. I guess that was my brain fart for the day.

The fact that the Rx doesn't work 9 times out of 10 just blows my mind.
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  Alex Lachance Jan 23, 2018 10:13 AM (in response to Jory Blagden)
  
  I was told that it could have something to do with our firewall blocking something from going out to their server and coming back, something along those lines.
  
  Though, I don't think that is it since it does sometimes work, as you stated.
  
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    Jory Blagden Jan 23, 2018 10:16 AM (in response to Alex Lachance)
    
    Alex Lachance wrote:
    
    I was told that it could have something to do with our firewall blocking something from going out to their server and coming back, something along those lines.
    
    Though, I don't think that is it since it does sometimes work, as you stated.
    Not sure. I have my firewall turned off locally, but that doesn't mean our company wide "Baracuda" web filter from hell doesn't cause trouble.
    
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      Alex Lachance Jan 23, 2018 11:13 AM (in response to Jory Blagden)
      
      That could be it, I know we use something called Sophos and it's a real P.I.T.A for everyone including I.T. guys, don't really know why we went that way. My guess was that it was cheaper and they thought it would do the required job.
      
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Re: Why doesn't mirror component work in 2018 SP1.0?

Jory Blagden Jan 23, 2018 10:13 AM (in response to Jory Blagden)

I used circular pattern after inserting an axis like a normal person would. Blood pressure back down to 240/187.
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