Creating Mirror Relationships

Use the Mirror tool in the Insert ribbon group on the Design tab to mirror any geometry that can be moved with the Move tool. You can insert a mirror plane between two faces, associating the faces so you can edit them together. You can copy a solid, surface, face, or curve from one side of a mirror plane to the other.

You can mirror curves, points, and axes without leaving sketch mode or cross section mode. When you mirror a curve, changing its geometry does not propagate to the other side.

You can mirror solids that contain patterns of features on a face, and the pattern will be updated on both sides. The pattern must be created before the solid is mirrored.

The plane becomes a persistent mirror once you create geometry using the mirror. The mirror relationship is maintained when you use other 2D and 3D tools to edit your design.

Mirrored components have a mirrored icon in the Structure tree and maintain their mirror relationships when they are exported.

Mirrored objects are created on the same layer as the original object. Mirrored points do not maintain their mirror relationship.