Mirror

Tech tips, tutorials, and best practices for Mirror from the Javelin technical team

SOLIDWORKS 2018 Mirror Part now includes Material and Visual Properties

By Saeed Mojarad (CSWE) on September 22, 2017

SOLIDWORKS 2018 provides a variety of new enhancements. One of the new enhancements is the ability to include the material…

By Mehdi Rezaei, CSWE on September 22, 2016

In SOLIDWORKS 2017, you can Mirror SOLIDWORKS Drawing View, including display model, relative to model, and predefined drawing views without having…

By Jim Peltier, CSWE on March 29, 2016

See what I did there? I used Character Map to get a backwards R, then used symmetric letters to make…

By Scott Durksen, CSWE on January 1, 2016

SOLIDWORKS 2016 now introduces the ability to mirror assembly features. The mirrored feature will propagate down to the part level…

By Sanja Srzic on December 11, 2014

Sheet metal is mirrored as any other SOLIDWORKS part by selecting a face and using the Insert > Mirror Part command. The…

By Adam Bridgman, CSWE on October 8, 2013

SolidWorks has been steadily adding options to Mirror Components for the last few releases. One of the missing details was…

By Joe Medeiros, CSWE on December 14, 2012

Weldment cut list properties can be transferred to the mirrored part using either of the two following methods: Method 1…

By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on November 7, 2012

The Mirror Component(s) tool in the Assembly environment was completely redesigned in the 2010 version of SolidWorks. At that time,…

By Alin Vargatu, CSWE on October 2, 2012

I have to confess, this is one of the new enhancements in SolidWorks 2013 that, at the first sight, I…