_MIR parts

[bengee54]

hello,

I am creating an assembly. A lot of the parts appear more than once so I thought it would be easier to mirror them.

All was going well until I created my drawing and from that a parts list. The resulting parts list was misleading.....

I had created a part called 'post'. I mirrored this, so i expected to see post, QTY: 2 in my parts list. What i saw was:

post: 1

post_mir:1

Is there a way to stop the _mir?

Thanks

[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

When you mirrored you made it a new part..hence the new part number

Try to use reuse instead of mirror in the mirror options/status

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-7B19CA69-8D14-40DA-9543-115A8AFE6336

[bengee54]

Thanks,

I guess i was being a tad lazy and chose to mirror instead of placing/adding constraints.

I was hoping that there'd be a option to mirror the part without creating new part.....sadly not.

oh well, back to the drawing board....

Thanks

[bengee54]

Thanks,

I guess i was being a tad lazy and chose to mirror instead of placing/adding constraints.

I was hoping that there'd be a option to mirror the part without creating new part.....sadly not.

oh well, back to the drawing board....

Thanks 

[GSE_Dan_A]

There is a way to mirror components without getting the '_MIR' suffix....

When using the Mirror Command in Assembly, you MUST select the Yellow circle and then select the Components in the Tree.  You will notce the Circles next to the component name change from Green to Yellow.  The Mirrored Parts will then be previewed in a Yellow Wire Frame.  This is reusing the parts without actually creating new Mirrored Components.

[mcgyvr]

Guess he was being lazy again and not reading the help document I clearly posted 

[GSE_Dan_A]

.... If it was Monday or Firday, I would of understood his laziness...

[spackle42]

Just wondering, why not just pattern your parts?

[bengee54]

Maybe I should've used the pattern feature, but as the components were symmetrical about the system plane I just thought mirroring them would be easier.

mcgyver/GSE_Dan_A,

i agree, I must've had an extremely lazy day. I can only offer my apologies for not reading the help file properly  

[karthur1]

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@bengee54 wrote:

Maybe I should've used the pattern feature, but as the components were symmetrical about the system plane I just thought mirroring them would be easier.

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If they were symmetric about a plane, place the second part and use the new "Synmmetry" constraint.

Kirk