How to flip horizontally/vertically ?

[Amit262]

Hi, What is the best way to sketch a part that is flipped along 2 axes. For example a Wrench. I sketched the left part and then mirrored along the Z (vertical) axis, it created the right portion as a mirror copy but now the right portion has to be flipped horizontally. How do i do this? What is the best way of doing something like this?

[blandb]

You could extrude half, then mirror the solid as a new solid.

Then mirror the new solid removing the original:

Finally, combine the 2 solids together.

Hope that helps you!

[JDMather]

Sketch Blocks.  (Assuming you want two different sizes too.  1/2 & 9/16)

Attach your file here if you can't figure it out.

(It is really a Rotation, not a Mirror.)

[Amit262]

Attaching the file..

[Amit262]

Thanks for pointing to Sketch Block, that seems to be the solution, didn't knew such a thing existed.

So I created a block from the left portion and then inserted a copy of the block and rotated 180. All good so far, but how do I scale it? If I edit the block and scale it, it scales all instances of the block, is there a way i can make changes to one instance of a block? May be disassociate it somehow and make it a separate block ?

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

Create two Different blocks so that you can edit them individually.

In your image you have two instances of the Same block.

I would Edit Block and edit the dimensions within the blocks rather than using Scale.