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Mirroring components and adding holes

Mirroring components and adding holes

Mirroring components and adding holes

(OP)
I have two metal panels in an assmbly that are mirror images, except one has a few extra holes. I've drawn the one with the additional holes, and tried mirroring it, but I can't remove the unneeded holes afterwards. I then to suppressed the holes I don't need, and mirrored it, but then when I unsupressed the holes in the first, they unsupressed in the new one also. Then I tried rolling back the model (all my additional holes are at the end of the feature tree), but got the same results. I'd like the shape of the panel to stay the same if the opposite is changed, but I need these extra holes in it. The Pro/E "help" was no help as usual.
I'm using Wildfire 2.0.
Any ideas? There's got to be a way... I could do it in Solidworks easily. (insert stick-poke smiley here)

David

RE: Mirroring components and adding holes

Hi David,

Try this:
1)Create the part (with the common holes only).
2)Mirror that part.
3)Add the extra holes to the mirrored part.

Good luck smile

RE: Mirroring components and adding holes

(OP)
Thst works... but now I have to recreate the opposite side, and cut the holes out of this one. I'll remember that for future reference. Does anyone know how to remove features from a mirrored component?

David

RE: Mirroring components and adding holes

(OP)
I figured it out... You have to select "copy" in order for it to be independant of the original. I tried this but accidently deleted the "mirror merge" also. so it deleted the whole part.

David

RE: Mirroring components and adding holes

" ... I'd like the shape of the panel to stay the same if the opposite is changed."

Dependant or independant?  

Mirrored Copy is irreversibly independant(?).  Mirrored Reference can be made independant (and vise-versa).

If you want a dependant copy of the base shape and some features, wonder if mirroring a family table instance isn't what you want?  Edit Def the Mirrored Merge Feature and change referenced instance.

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