[solved]Part-design mirror of mirrored feature not possible?

[dbecad]

Good day,
i was trying to reproduce some geometry from another post to see if i could model it and the shape was calling for a double symmetry.

But it seems that you cannot mirror in part design WB an already "mirrored feature"? I had to use the mirror in the part WB to do it but it feels a bit broken as workflow goes.

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Doing the same thing with only the mirror tool of Part WB is even more confusing as the body will suddenly appear in 2 locations in the tree and the dependency graph seems to be broken (axis & pads are outside of the body box)...

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Note: I had to select both the "Body (Mirror #1)" and the "Body" to get this result. Selecting the "Body (Mirror #1)" only would only create 1/4 of the shape instead of the desired result.

So questions:
- is double (multi) symmetry feature missing from part design WB? or it's a limitation but could be added as a feature request
- is double (multi) symmetry using part WB (mirror file joined) broken?

Thanks for your help,
Cheers

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OS: Windows 7
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.13509 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-17
Hash: 0258808ccb6ba3bd5ea9312f79cd023f1a8671b7
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)

[chrisb]

But it seems that you cannot mirror in part design WB an already "mirrored feature"? I had to use the mirror in the part WB to do it but it feels a bit broken as workflow goes.

In PartDesign you have to use the multitransform feature.

[ppemawm]

it seems that you cannot mirror in part design WB an already "mirrored feature"?

This can be done with PartDesign>MultiTransform feature:

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OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.13509 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-17
Hash: 0258808ccb6ba3bd5ea9312f79cd023f1a8671b7
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)

[dbecad]

Thanks ppemawm and chrisb, multi-transform does work beautifully.
I'll mark as resolve!
Cheers