Feature request: Mirrored subassembly

[ea425019]

Not sure this should be posted here or in API, anyhow.

My feature request is as follows:  If you design a left wing, left wheel suspension, etc... I wish to have the software replicate the components thru new joints created automatically, into a right wing, etc.  Many designs involve nearly identical left/right sub assemblies which presently involve me setting up a component as a container, loading all left components in there, then joining each in the proper way to become a right side. I feel that automation is reasonably easy for the software to do on it's own,  saving me time.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

"then joining each in the proper way to become a right side. I feel that automation is reasonably easy for the software to do on it's own,  saving me time."

This is, in fact, the hard part - the joints.  Fusion joints are created using two coordinate systems (represented by the joint origins).  A joint is a relationship between two coordinate systems.  Under a mirror transform, a coordinate system becomes "left handed", and today, Fusion does not support left handed coordinate systems.  So, today, you can mirror the subassembly, but you will have to re-apply the joints yourself.  If the joints are all rigid, then a Rigid Group is pretty easy to apply.  More complex motion relationships like Revolute, Planar, or Ball, you will have to apply those joints yourself.

It is something we'd like to address at some point, but I don't know how far out that will be.