Hi everyone,

I am Arnaud, I am new to this forum and I have been looking for an answer to the following question without any success so far.

Using Solidworks 2012, I am making a part  that is a casting part, this part have ribs and they are shown properly without hatching on their drawing (exclude ribs feature on section view option). So far so good.

Now I want to make a opposite version of this part, either by the mirror part option when my active part a symmetry plane is selected, or by creating a new part and import the previous part then mirror its body. Now, when I want to create a drawing for this part I can't seem to exclude ribs on section view since the part refered in the view is a imported part with no direct link with a rib feature.

How could I make my mirrored part drawing to have excluded ribs on its section views? What would be the best practice without having to create ribs on the mirrored part?

I hope this is understandable, let me know if you need me to explain it a bit further.

Thanks

Arnaud