IV8 Mirror Components ???

[Anonymous]

I am trying to mirror one side of an assembly to the other. These
particular pieces are all cut out of flat sheets of metal. Because there
are no flanges or anything, none of the parts need to be mirrored
(rights/lefts), they just need to be copied and perhaps reoriented on the
other side. However, IV8 doesn't seem to be able to figure this out. If I
let the program actually create new mirrored parts, everything works as
expected. Parts are in the correct position/orientation and are properly
constrained. But, when I change from "mirrored" to "reused" parts, the
whole thing breaks down. Some parts are upside down, parts are not properly
constrained, etc.

Does anybody have any suggestions or workarounds for this problem? When I
first read about this feature, I told my boss that it would be great, IF it
worked. My fear was that it wouldn't really be useable until somewhere
around IV10.

Thanks,

Blane

[Anonymous]

That's the exact same thing I told my boss. Mirroring a test assembly
exploded it. There were 3 great features for us IF they worked; mirror
assembly, merge rows & sum lengths in the parts list, & exclude standard
parts from sectioning. Not one has worked in testing. It's already been
explained that being able to specify user standard parts didn't make it into
the program, I don't know what's up with the other two.

--
Dave Hoder
Product Design Engineer
idX Seattle
www.idxcorporation.com
"BTBeilke" wrote in message
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> I am trying to mirror one side of an assembly to the other. These
> particular pieces are all cut out of flat sheets of metal. Because there
> are no flanges or anything, none of the parts need to be mirrored
> (rights/lefts), they just need to be copied and perhaps reoriented on the
> other side. However, IV8 doesn't seem to be able to figure this out. If
I
> let the program actually create new mirrored parts, everything works as
> expected. Parts are in the correct position/orientation and are properly
> constrained. But, when I change from "mirrored" to "reused" parts, the
> whole thing breaks down. Some parts are upside down, parts are not
properly
> constrained, etc.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions or workarounds for this problem? When I
> first read about this feature, I told my boss that it would be great, IF
it
> worked. My fear was that it wouldn't really be useable until somewhere
> around IV10.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Blane
>
>