Draft Mirror Tool in FreeCAD
This video provides on overview of the Draft Mirror tool, which is part of the FreeCAD Draft workbench. This tool enables users to create a mirror copy of an object or multiple objects in 2D or 3D space. The practical examples show how to mirror simple geometry, how to mirror multiple objects, how to mirror groups. Editing of the base and mirrored objects is also part of the tutorial. Viewers will also learn how to edit the mirror plane and how to exit the edit mode of the draft_mirror tool. Exploding the mirror object so that user can work with the original and the new objects is also demonstrated.
Draft Mirror tool behaves similar to Part Mirror tool.
Learn more about the Draft_Mirror tool on FreeCAD wiki: https://wiki.freecad.org/Draft_Mirror
FreeCAD version used in the video: 1.0
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Content:
0:00 Introduction
0:33 Basics of creating mirrored copy of an object
1:52 Mirroring multiple objects and group of objects
3:47 Editing the base mirror objects
4:25 Difference between mirrored view and data properties
5:25 Position of base and mirrored objects
6:40 Changing the position of the mirror plane/axis
8:35 Deleting the base object
9:47 Exploding the mirror object to independent copies
10:38 Relationship between Draft_Mirror and Part_Mirror tools
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