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Using the Mirror command

Using the Mirror command - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the Mirror command

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- [Instructor] The mirror command inside of SolidWorks is a great way to have SolidWorks do a lot of work for you. Instead of designing an entire part, if you have a symmetrical part, you can design maybe one half or one quarter of the part and then use the mirror command to then mirror that one part into the other quadrants. Let me show you how to do that. First things first, let's open up this sketch directly below that feature. And you can see here we have the entire part designed. I want to go ahead and just delete the entire sketch. And now I want to draw out just one quarter of that. So the first thing I want to do is jump up here to the corner rectangle. Let's grab that one here and just draw the rectangle. Now for fun I'm also going to add in a couple of center lines. So starting from the origin, I'm going to make a center line going directly down, and I'm also going to make one more that goes from the origin out to the left. And I'll show you why I'm going to be doing that…

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