Mirror features to another body

[Anonymous]

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

[roatchristopher]

@jeff_strater - What would be the appropriate way for the community to vote up this issue?

[ScottWatrous]

Ah so I'm not alone.

I've got parts with hundreds upon hundreds of rivet holes that need to be mirrored across a dozen bodies that make up a spar structure, and so far the only viable strat is to make my holes into a body, and then cut that body from a duplicate body without holes to turn the holes into 'drills' and then delete all that out of the spar with literally dozens of combine-cut features because we can't select multiple target bodies for a single cut (despite extrude being able to do that just fine 🙄) It's an incredibly fiddly and clumsy and heavy workaround to what would be real simple if I could simply use a mirror.

[TheCADWhisperer]

@ScottWatrous 

Maybe I don't understand the problem description, but it sounds like to me that these should be Components.

[donsmac]

Make a temporary part like a long thin cylinder that passes through the bodies and combine/join everything into one body. Then you can mirror. Then delete the long thin cylinder. 

[terry_fusion]

Yup, and almost every other freaking CAD package on the planet has the ability to mirror about a plane, mirror with translations, or about a line.

'He says as he bangs his head against the table because he knows no one from Autodesk is actually listening'

@terry_fusion -this post has been edited due to Community Rules & Etiquette violation.

[leavidev]

I came across this problem today...and it's pathetic that it hasn't been addressed still. Autodesk, please get this basic feature implemented! Mirroring is a critical function in many scenarios.