Assistance with Mirror and Overall Part Design

[mfro]

... but I know of one company that complains about autodesk inventor because you can't create changes in the mirrored half at the sketch level ...

Complaint appears illogical to me.

If you have a mirrored feature, you can't really expect to be able to modify the underlying generator geometry seperately. That's requesting a parametric modeler to act non-parametric?

[thomas-neemann]

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in part it is parametrically possible

[mfro]

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in part it is parametrically possible

Then I don't understand the request.

[thomas-neemann]

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it should only be a hint that it is possible in freecad. in case someone tries it in partdesign and would otherwise give up

[papyblaise]

you can also use Sheetmetal BaseBend and Miror

[chrisb]

in case someone tries it in partdesign and would otherwise give up

I don't understand. Both Part and PartDesign mirrors are parametric.

[thomas-neemann]

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I don't understand. Both Part and PartDesign mirrors are parametric.

Yes, but a lot of time can be saved if the mirroring largely corresponds to what is mirrored, but changes or extensions are necessary

[FBXL5]

in part it is parametrically possible

I doubt that.

Yes, but a lot of time can be saved if the mirroring largely corresponds to what is mirrored, but changes or extensions are necessary

The mirrored side should completely correspond to the original side or I wouldn't call it mirrored.

And if a mirrored part should be extended it makes no sense to do that on sketch level.
If it has its own sketch it is not a really a mirrored object, but rather an identically built object with mirrored sketch geometry.

[Shalmeneser]

Same solution as @papyblaise. You don't need to modify the original sketch.
(Do I need to do a Fusion ?)

[thomas-neemann]

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I'm probably misunderstood. the founder of a mechanical engineering company complained about wasting cad time because in Inventor you couldn't create sketch-level modifications or extensions in a mirroring. I will start a new thread and make a video for it to show an example of what is meant.