Mirroring Asymmetric Components (New in SolidWorks 2014)

We have a new option to mirror Asymmetric components starting 2014 version of SolidWorks which we will go through using the below file as an example.

We select the Mirror command from the Assembly toolbar and in that we have a new option in the Mirror Property Manager to select the Mirror type. Shown below is the result with the Center of Mass option selected. This option positions the mirror so that the center of mass of the selected component is mirrored about the mirror plane.

Shown below is the result with the Bounding Box center option selected. This option mirror’s so that the center of the bounding box for the selected component is mirrored about the mirror plane.