Hi,
I have modeled two bodies with a plane created between the two. One body has a slot feature which I want to mirror to the second body. I select the pattern type as "pattern features" and the midplane as the mirror plane. When I select the slot feature, it show a preview of the slot in the second body, however, when I "apply" the feature it does not appear on the second body.
What am I doing wrong?
Result
When mirroring bodies, you make a mirrored, independent copy of that body. That means that any etiting on body 1 wil not automatically be present on body 2.
This would be possible with components (not bodies) and works for array and circular patterns, but curenly not with the mirror pattern. It is a very often requested feature annd as I understand it it's in the development queue waiting for implementation.
There are a number of workarounds I could suggest, but it is difficult to do as I don't know what your end goal is. sSome more detail is needed.
Actually, I recently stumbled across this as well. It is definitely a deficiency in the Fusion pattern commands (mirror is just a pattern with an inverse transform). They do not work across bodies... It came up in this other thread: problem-with-circular-pattern.
We chose to characterize it as "not yet implemented" as opposed to a bug, not that it really matters...
There are some workarounds:
1. In the other thread, it was as simple as rolling back before the Pattern Body and inserting the desired feature. Then, the Pattern Body will pick it up.
2. You can always create the feature as a New Body, pattern the body, then use Combine to do the Join/Cut. A bit clumsy, but workable
In some ways, it is surprising that this hasn't come up more often. If it becomes more common of a problem, we will certainly prioritize a fix.
Jeff Strater (Fusion development)
