topic Re: Creating a mirrored assembly and selecting a bunch of bodies in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Creating a mirrored assembly and selecting a bunch of bodies

jacob.michaels — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:53:39 GMT

Heyo,

I want to know if there's a way to select ALL bodies in the entire file and mirror them. I'm working on a large wood assembly right now, and there are 2 of these full assemblies, 1 mirrored from the other. I've already made the 1st one, including all of the drawings. For this 2nd one, I've made a copy of the model and drawing already.

I want to select all bodies at once though to make sure I don't leave anything out, but the window selection only selects what's visible from my viewport angle and I can't add any other bodies to the selection. I could go through everything and select all bodies manually, but that seems tedious and I bet there's a better way to do it.

My idea is to mirror all the bodies, and remove the original one from each component, which will in theory, keep my model organization, retain my storyboard views, and fingers crossed, not break my drawings too bad. There's like 20 pages of details for this.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can easily mirror this assembly, retaining my animation storyboards for the drawing workspace, please let me know. I feel like this should be easier to do that it seems to be.

Thanks!

Re: Creating a mirrored assembly and selecting a bunch of bodies

jhackney1972 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:18:14 GMT

Please attach your model. If you do not know how to attach your Fusion 360 model follow these easy steps. Open the model in Fusion 360, select the File menu, then Export and save as a F3D or F3Z file to your hard drive. Then use the Attachments section, of a forum post, to attach it.

Re: Creating a mirrored assembly and selecting a bunch of bodies

jacob.michaels — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:24:52 GMT

thanks! and I'm trying to mirror it about plane 5

Re: Creating a mirrored assembly and selecting a bunch of bodies

jhackney1972 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:38:19 GMT

You are probably forgetting to check the "Select Through" option in your selection filter. Model attached.

Re: Creating a mirrored assembly and selecting a bunch of bodies

jacob.michaels — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:39:31 GMT

Excellent, I totally didn't have that on.

Thanks for the help 🙂