Mirror object automatically

[jonathan.craig]

Hi,

I am looking for a way to get entities too be automatically mirrored from a reference axis And updating everytime i put a new object.

im a working on a structure on a deck of a boat. I want to be able too work only on one side of the boat as the other side of the reference line in red mirrors automaticaly everything i do over it.

Hope this is clear.

thanks ! 

Ps: here the link of what i want to achieve (not in 3d tho)  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LwQO_tWTAQ

 

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

Define one half of it as a Block, Mirror that across the center-line axis, and do your working-on-it within REFEDIT or BEDIT.  When you get out of that and Save the changes, the other side will update.

[Shneuph]

Kent's advice is very sound.  I much prefer refedit to bedit.  I only use bedit if I'm going to use dynamic properties in a block.

I use blocks a ton and refedit alot so I wrote some simple lisp to help speed the editing up.

(Defun C:TLC-Reference_Edit ()
(setvar "cmdecho" 1)
(command "-refedit" pause "O" "A" "Y")
(setvar "cmdecho" 0)
(progn)
);defun

and

(Defun C:TLC-Reference_Save ( / tlv-refname)
(if (/= (getvar "refeditname") "")
(progn
(setq tlv-refname (getvar "refeditname"))
(command "refclose" "s")
(command "attsync" "n" tlv-refname)
);progn
(princ "Not in Ref Edit Mode. Exiting")
);if
(princ)
);defun

You can add to your .pgp file like I did if you like:

RED, *TLC-Reference_Edit
RS, *TLC-Reference_Save

[john.uhden]

What's wrong with the Extend command, especially with Fence?  Or are the port->starboard lines supposed to be separate, port and starboard?

[Kent1Cooper]

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@john.uhden wrote:

What's wrong with the Extend command, especially with Fence?  Or are the port->starboard lines supposed to be separate, port and starboard?

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Surely nothing's wrong with Extend, but widen your horizons -- there are so  many other kinds of "work" they might want to do on it [add linework running in other directions than perpendicular to the mid-line, openings, bolts, re-shape the perimeter, hatch areas, etc., etc.].

[john.uhden]

... winches, cleats, vents, stanchions, barber hauls, lee boards, side stays, back stays, Harken blocks, life boats, hoists, railings, gun mounts, swimming pools and slides, bocci courts, shuffle board courts, tiki bars, etc., etc., etc.