About Mirror Features

Using Mirror

Using a plane to mirror a body lets you obtain two independent portions of material in the same body. The following mirror is obtained using a plane as the reference element.

Contextual Commands

When editing a mirror feature, contextual commands creating the mirror references you need are available from the Mirroring element box:

• Insert Wireframe > Create Plane: For more information, see Generative Shape Design User's Guide: Creating Wireframe Geometry: Creating Planes.
• Insert Wireframe > XY Plane: The XY plane of the current coordinate system origin (0,0,0) becomes the mirroring element.
• Insert Wireframe > YZ Plane: The YZ plane of the current coordinate system origin (0,0,0) becomes the mirroring element.
• Insert Wireframe > ZX Plane: The ZX plane of the current coordinate system origin (0,0,0) becomes the mirroring element.

Features that cannot be mirrored

The following features cannot be mirrored:

• Contextual features
• Mirrored features
• Shelled features
• Translated features
• Rotated features
• Axis to Axis features
• Affinity features
• Scaled features
• Symmetrical features
• Split features
• Features under Boolean Operation
• Imported Features
• Sew Surfaces