Mirror a part

[kenrinc]

Searched and found a few hits but wanted to clarify. I just want to make an exact duplicate of my part. If it's a "mirrored" part that's fine. One post suggested going to the Part workbench, "selecting the part" and then choosing Mirror. How does one select the part? If I don't do anything and hit the mirror button I'm greeted with a dialog to select the feature to mirror. If I select everything I get a mirrored part but in this case some of the features did not carry over (#3 in pic, holes aren't pocketed). Is there something I'm missing?

Ken-

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[quick61]

Hi Ken. You only want to select the last feature in the tree to mirror. If your just wanting a copy of the part, you can either use Edit > Duplicate selection, or Edit > Copy or Part > Create simple copy or Draft > Clone. All depending on just what you want. In all cases, You just want to select the last feature in the tree. In your case, that would be Pocket - holes from looking at your screenshot.

Mark

[kenrinc]

The one thing I did not try Thanks Mark.

Ken-

[jmaustpc]

If the items are to have placement in a regular pattern, e.g. equally spaced in a straight line then you would want a Draft Array, which can be in ortho or polar mode, and you can stack Draft Arrays, so that you can have an array of arrays.

[Scalpel78]

Is it allowed to create several holes from one sketch like that?

Or is it perhaps creating several pads from one sketch that isn't allowed?

[NormandC]

Is it allowed to create several holes from one sketch like that?

There is no problem other than this complicates the sketch and adds more degrees of freedom to constrain. If you have many, it's more efficient to make a single circle, pocket it and use a Linear pattern.

Or is it perhaps creating several pads from one sketch that isn't allowed?

Yes, that can lead to problems.

[jmaustpc]

Is it allowed to create several holes from one sketch like that?

Or is it perhaps creating several pads from one sketch that isn't allowed?

It is possible that you could be confused by the fact that it did not used to be possible a while ago, and you may have seen reference to that somewhere in the forums, which would have been correct back at the time the posts had originally been written. But some time ago the code was extended to allow multiple pocket profiles within one sketch.