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Use the Sketch Mirror tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS
Use the Sketch Mirror tool
- [Instructor] The sketch mirror tool allows us to take an entity or any type of a sketch and mirror it over some center line inside of our drawing. Now we have two different types of mirrors. We can mirror individual sketches, but we can also mirror individual body, surfaces and so on. So they're either feature mirrors or their sketch mirrors. Now, I generally prefer to do mirrors as the part, design half the part, and then mirror over the entire part versus mirroring over the sketch. But there are specific reasons you might want to do a mirror inside of a sketch, it just going to make it a little more complicated sketch, but it is a very cool tool that we have available to us. So let me show you how to work it. So right over here, I got this little rectangle, sorry, not rectangle, that's triangle. I got a triangle here on the screen and notice I've got a few different central lines. So here's the center line here. Here's…
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