Serious Mirroring

[eGads2]

So we are looking for a way to mirror a model. We need an exact mirror of the RH to be our left hand. It has to be a free standing fully parametric model on its own with no associativity to the original model.
Yes, I know this is stupid.

SO, for example in the screenshot provided, I want to mirror this demo part. It was created with sketches. Is there a fairly simple way to mirror the part and all its parameters?

Thanks so much for the help.. this has everybody stumped here.

ANd yes, I know there are BETTER ways to do it. This is our task though.

So at the end of the day, we want 2 different files of the same exact part that are perfect, non-associative mirrors of each other.

 

[cowski]

Move your mouse to the opposite side of the desk and model it up again!

The usual answer is wave linking, but it sounds as if you have ruled that out. There are no built-in commands that will 'remodel' your features in a mirror image keeping the new model parametric yet unassociated to the first model.

www.nxjournaling.com

 

[mmauldin]

You can do a "save As" on the original model then create the mirror in three steps. The last three features of the attached model make it a mirrored part. One caveat, I haven't tried this with a very complex model, but I'm fairly sure it would work.

 

[carlharr]

Or just do a save-as, create an associative mirrored body in the new part and use it's original parameters to drive it.
Then remove the orginal from the model reference set.

It will create a very odd, but fully functional model.

http://www.jcb.com

NX 8.5 with TC 8.3

 

[eGads2]

Thanks for the replies! The move your mouse to the other side gave me a good chuckle.

mmauldin. I took a look at that part, unfortunately, our parts are far too complicated for that to work, though that is a good effort.

carlharr, we did try something like that originally, but it didn't go over very well. We also tried bringing in a part, linking/mirror it, and empty ref. setting it. They didn't like that either.

I think the functionality just may not be there for with NX. They do have a mirror assembly command that could have worked (in theory), but it doesn't seem to really work well. It's almost like they started working on the tool and said "no, this is stupid, lets not support this anymore" and just left it as-is in NX.

 

[jerry1423]

by simply reversing the plane normal direction of the initial sketch should give you a mirrored part