Mirroring extrusion on same component

[Analias]

Many times I have a component that models a board in piece of furnature.  I draw the profile out on a sketch plane and then extrude it.  I then want to model a tenon on each end of the board.  I go to one end, create a sketch plain, offset the original board profile and apply a radius to each corner.  At this point I would like to apply the same operations to the other end of the board.  Is there a way to mirror the extruded tenon from one end to the other end of the board?  So far the only solution I can see is to duplicate the same steps on the other end of the board.  Duplication of work like this invites errors to creep in.

-Freeman

[innovatenate · Accepted solution]

You can use the mirror command to accomplish this. See the below Screencast for further detail.

http://autode.sk/1FboU3u 

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

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[Analias]

Bingo! That is exactly as I was trying to do myself. The real trick was using the midplane to create the mirror plane and selecting the extrusion off of the time line. I had forgotten you could do that.


-Freeman