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Mirrored Assemblies

Mirrored Assemblies

Mirrored Assemblies

(OP)
Does Pro/E (2001 or Wildfire) have the capability of taking an assembly of 1/2 of a symetrical design and creating the other half? I don't want to create all new parts, only those that are unique to the second half. The common parts should just have new components loaded, so the parts list count would double.

To make it more fun, I want to do it as an image first to 'preview' what the final assembly will look like. If I am dealing with class A surfaces, I want the reflection lines to treat the complete surface as a single single.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

RE: Mirrored Assemblies

Have a look at:
Thread554-42758 has a tip I found extremely useful for creating new parts that mirror parts already drawn. The tip is for 2001, the option is probably available in Wildfire too.

RE: Mirrored Assemblies

(OP)
That's a start, but it is a very manual process and you have to do it for each piece.

I am looking for an automated method that will take 15 components out of an 85 component assembly and make the mirrored image of the 15 AND construct the mirrored assembly for me.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

RE: Mirrored Assemblies

Hi,

The easiest way (that I know of) is to do as described in Thread554-42758 (by 3dlogix) but creating a subassembly instead of a new component. This gives you the possibillity to choose which parts that chould be given a new name an which parts that chould be reused with its old name.

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