dissolve mirror

[nstalker]

Is it possible to dissolve a mirror in Autodesk Inventor?  I know it is in Autodesk Fusion.  It is an extremely useful tool in Solidworks.

[JDMather]

There are different techniques depending on what you really really want to do.

Are you simply trying to get rid of the original?

Multibody solids?

Derived Components?

Assembly mirrored component....

I could probably think of a couple of other variables to the question.

Post your SolidWorks example here and I'll show you how to do the same thing in Inventor.

[nstalker]

I just did a workflow in Solidworks this morning that I wasn't sure how to do in Inventor.  I was making an aluminum extrusion guard wall and created two perpendicular pieces, then I mirrored those pieces to create a frame.  I then wanted to move the bottom footer piece up so that there was clearance between the floor and the piece.  When I altered the constraint to create clearance, it altered the position of the header because of the mirror plane.  So instead I dissolved the mirror and was then able to move the pieces independently and resize them without affecting the other piece that was created via a mirror.