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hello friends welcome to free cat tutorial and this tutorial is about mirror
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tool and in this tutorial we will learn importance of order of the features while
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using the mirror tool when using the mirror tool in a free cat then selections
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of features is very important so we will see in this tutorial you can also visit
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me to create more awesome and useful tutorials on free cad so let's come back to our tutorial
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and this is the free CAD 1.0 RC 2 release and if you have not switched to the free CAD version 1.0
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then switch it because it has so many good features for sketching part modeling etc so if you
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are using the windows then I have already made a videos on my channel when
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the free CAD 1.0 is out you can check this video how you can run free get 1.0
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on windows and if we are using the Mac Linux then search for the suitable
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tutorial on YouTube how you can run it so let's start our tutorial so here in
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this part if you see here this is the a simple box and here are the two flat
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faces with a hole and we want to mirror these two on this other side on this
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face so let's do it so first let's select this feature and this feature and
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click on the mirror and here I will select reference and select mirror tool
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and click on ok so here first you have to activate the body here which I have
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already activated so now if you see here we have did the mirror without any error
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the problem is that the this hole is not transformed here the reason behind it most people do and they get stuck in that I have added the mirror but why this features or some other features not got mirror so there is a
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problem in your selections so if we edit our mirror features so we can see that
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we have first selected the pocket and then selected the pad which means that
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this pad is got overlapped on this pocket which means that hole is here
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already but we have selected the wrong order so there are the two ways to fix
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it first is that when selecting the features then select the features from
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top to down here what I have a date is I selected this pocket and by pressing the
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control key and then I selected the pad that's why it happens when I did the
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mirror and here so this is the wrong order of the selections now we will do
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the right order of the selections so first we will select this pad and then
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this pocket and click on the mirror and select the reference and select the mirror now it is a perfect now this is the one way to fix it but let see our
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previous example where we have a selected this pocket first and in this
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pad and click on the mirror and select the reference and click on ok so now
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without deleting this mirror we can fix it what we have to do is go to the edit
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mirror and here we will select and drop down so we have a reorder here we have selected the pad
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and place above the pocket which means that here we are adding the material and with the pocket we
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are removing the material and now our mirror is got fixed so this is the very
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small tips where most of the beginner get confused they have a did the mirror
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but feature is not reflecting so this is the very small tips and importance of
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order of a selections while using the mirror tool in freecat I hope you have
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enjoyed this tutorial and you will apply this trick to your modeling of a part so
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this is all about this tutorial thank you for watching and thank you for your
