Hi, If I draw a part, left side as my other topic hereunder: [image] How to draw this? SketchUp Hi, Any help how can I draw the part in the red circle please? http://www.fotothing.com/photos/8d8/8d860c00e4075279a7217c3a46eea59f_ad6.jpg http://www.fotothing.com/photos/1…

There are a couple of native options. There’s Flip Along and the Scale tool with -1 as the scale factor. No need for a plugin at all. In both cases, copy the original and flip or scale the copy. With Flip Along, select the component, group or geometry, right click on it and choose Flip Along and th…

[image] DaveR: If you pay attention to the color of the line trailing the cursor as you move the copy, you would know the orientation. Fair point. But to use Flip Along for this purpose, you generally have to make a copy first, move it an arbitrary distance, then use Flip Along, then Move to…

[image] simoncbevans: Fair point. But to use Flip Along for this purpose, you generally have to make a copy first, move it an arbitrary distance, then use Flip Along, then Move to line up, don’t you? Not necessarily. I usually place the copies exactly where they need to go and then flip them. …

Maybe it’s a picky point, but there is a technical difference between flip along or scale -1 and “mirror”: mirror means create a copy at the corresponding location on the opposite side of an identified mirror plane. For flip along and scale -1 the plane is implicit and you can’t specify it.

Actually, for Scale,-1, you can specify it with a mirroring line :wink: [Scale2]

As always, Dave, you amaze me! Could you please explain in words how you set the mirror line? Do you mean you include an extra item in the component at the desired mirror location, here the midpoint of the chair?

[image] slbaumgartner: Could you please explain in words how you set the mirror line? The “mirror line” is simply a guideline. In this case I placed it on the ground plane at the center line of the chair using inferencing to find that location. It may not be obvious in the GIF but the guide l…

I admit that I hadn’t thought of including a centreline in the selection when using scaling like that. Useful. Again, being picky, it does mean setting up a construction line and including it in any selection, all of which would have to be taken into account in any time & motion study. I do have …

We have this in our beginners course for several years. [image] Mirror with Scale tool and leave original copy Pro if you extend the selection to scale with a guideline, you will have a ‘mirrorplane’ as well! [MirrorScale]

Scale with - 1, or scale with Ctrl key to do ‘from center’ then type - 1 are my preferred method. Otherwise I have TIG’s mirror as @simoncbevans mentioned short-keyed with Shift+m

[image] MikeWayzovski: We have this in our beginners course for several years. [image] Mirror with Scale tool and leave original copy Pro if you extend the selection to scale with a guideline, you will have a ‘mirrorplane’ as well! [MirrorScale] Jack, that’s interesting but in my view doe…

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We have this in our beginners course for several years.

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Mirror (kind of) plugin?

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