JMirisola, basically I want it twice as long. I would be using the front plane as the mirror plane. The edge that the curve is on would be the mirror plane. Hope this helps, as now Im itching to figure this out! (Dont ya just love getting stuck like this?)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but no I cannot mirror sketches. I can only mirror features, faces and bodies according to solid works. Anybody else? Am I just not seeing this or is it just ridiculous that you can't mirror sheet metal?
I am mirroring the body. Its a simple sheet metal part. I made the left hand side, now I want to mirror it and have it merge the two solids in order to obtain a single part. I'd like to provide a better description, but don't know what else to say.
I've uploaded the file but don't know if you...
I can't mirror a sheet metal part in Solidworks 2005. I have made half a section and just want to mirror it. It says bend face is an invalid face for sheet metal. Yet it wants me to select a face of the actual sheet metal part for it to work. Any ideas?
Ok so I made these pieces of sheet metal all with lofted bends, all are Gaussian surfaces. I try to flatten and now it says it can't do it. I feel like I've been cheated by SolidWorks! "The part contains features that cannot be unbent." I'm getting pretty frustrated now. Any suggestions?
I've made half a sheetmetal section with splines, using lofted bends. Now I want to complete my part and mirror the sheetmetal feature. It says it can't mirror a sheet metal feature, and to "try" mirroring a body! What is a body? Why won't it let me?
I think I may have found a way around it. I essentially drew tiny "circles" on the end of my arcs so that they sit on the edge of the circles (I chose quadrants for consistency) so that the ends don't actually touch each other, and was able to have the loft work. This doesn't seem like the right...
Ok I'd like to start a new thread for this one. I've attached a pic of what I'm doing. Basically it looks a bit like a football. I made these arcs and want to connect them via lofted bend. Panel 1 seems to be fine (maybe because the arcs do no connect at the ends?).
I create a new part in my...
Yes I stand corrected. Now that I've been messing with this I've got another one. It would be great if someone could solve this! Basically create a plane 20 degrees from another. Then make an arc in each about the same dimensions. Loft-bend in sheetmetal. It seems IMPOSSIBLE! Why??? It previews...
ok I've done the lofted bends after jumping through some hoops. I imitated my spline by making a bunch of joined arcs, and had to make them tangent to each other. I copied it again and lofted them. im pretty disappointed that solidworks cant create a sheet metal part out of a simple spline.
After reading these two replies, I feel dumb. I don't understand any of it. The lofted bend seems logical but for some reason does not work. I've tried recreating my spline with arcs with success (it's not a complicated spline) and still not working. I should maybe PrintScreen and show you guys...
I'm trying to create a sheet metal part out of a simple spline. I can't get it at all. Is there a trick? I've tried a 2d and 3d sketch and the closest I've gotten is 3d sketch and created a surface with it. It looks just like what I want the sheet metal part to look, except I need to be able to...
