mirrored feature, modified feature, back to mirror - the change did not mirror??

[Anonymous]

added features after moving EOP BELOW THE FEATURE, do not automatically mirror WHEN EOP is MOVED BACK. Have to redefine/edit mirror command manually to include added feature like fillet, direct edit or anything else. Is is there a setting that include children thus allowing the mirror command capture the change in the feature browser?

[SBix26]

The way you describe it, the answer is no, there is no way to automatically include features in a pattern that are added above the pattern feature in the browser.

However, if your mirror/pattern is of a solid body, rather than of features, it works the way you wish-- any feature added to a patterned body before the pattern will be part of the pattern.  Make sense?

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Sam B
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[Anonymous]

Thank you kindly for your reply. I did not explain my problem properly.
Please see the pics below that describe:
block creation
mirror feature
moving EOP back under extrusion
applying fillet to 1 edge
moving EOP back - only to find out the fillet did not repeat in the mirror
feature.

[image: STEP 1 - CREATE BLOCK, STEP 2 - MIRROR.JPG]
[image: STEP 3, MOVE eop ABOVE THE MIRROR.JPG]
[image: STEP 4, ADD FILLET.JPG]
[image: STEP 5, MOVE eop BACK TO THE END - WHERE IS THE FILLET..JPG]

To me, the fillet is above the mirror and needs to travel with the modified
block...
Thank you for your patience.

[SBix26 · Accepted solution]

This will work easily for you-- edit the Mirror feature, and instead of choosing the Extrusion feature, change the selection to Mirror Solids, then pick the block solid body.  Now when you go back and add the fillet above the Mirror, it will be included automatically because it's part of the mirrored solid.

Then you can choose to make the mirrored block a separate solid body (New Solid), or joined to the original (Join).

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Sam B
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