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Drafting Opposite Hands

Drafting Opposite Hands

Drafting Opposite Hands

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Hi all,

I have a small problem and would be grateful for some advice.

I have an assembly made up from 141 sheetmetal components & parts. The Assembly has been developed as a Right Hand Version, where 90% of the sheetmetal parts are not symmetrical.

In my line of work it is usually suffice to create a RH version and then specify on the drafts of the sheetmetal components that RH as drawn and LH Opposite or a similar statement.

Unfortunately the Client has requested a complete set of LH drawings as well as a complete set of RH.

The drafts are quite complex starting at sub-assembly level then using progressive sheets itemize the sheetmetal components and have break-lines and detail views as well as flat developments.

I can created a LH Assembly by Mirroring the RH version. – No problems  

But is there a trick of the trade for creating opposite hand drafts from originals or updating original drafts in to opposites without disturbing the layouts or do I have to bite the bullet and create a new set of drafts based on the mirrored version.
 

RE: Drafting Opposite Hands

It will be a bit of both.
Use rev manager, or save-as and edit>links to create the new drafts.
Some of the opposite hand parts may give you a reasonable drawing with a small amount of re-work, but the assemblies will probably not.
I usually find that some of the views are from the wrong side when doing the opp hand ie. if you have a front and left view for the RH part you will need front and right for the LH part.
It may be easier to just create a new draft and use the original as reference to get the same layout.
 

bc.
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