Be cautious. attempting to flip/mirror from an axis is problematic in any application.

From your explained example, then a mirror from Z/Y(plane) should give expected results from any view.

I have not yet seen a problem with mirror, although it can be easy to get a result that is not expected if a mirror point is not actually making mirror of all selected from a single mirror, what I mean there is that if you have 4 objects selected and then the mirror is in-between the objects, then the result can be seen as unexpected.

Please post an example file, and where you are attempting the mirror(which plane/ origin point), it will then be easier for me to explain.

Let's try again, but curves only... no surfaces and no solids...

OK, that worked.

So, here's the problem: I can mirror individual surfaces, but not multiples in one go, about the same selected axis. I am using Aerospace, the alternative.

For example, take from the aft (back, wider) area of the model, select 8 lines to be 7 feet of side shell of the hull. Color it if it helps. Then, select 7 or 8 or 9 more lines for the next forward strip of hull. Do this a third time.

Now, select the three surfaces (ensuring to not select any lines... we don't need nor want redundant lines.

Next, select the mirror tool.

Next, select the origin (to ensure our snaps don't cause problems if we incorrectly select a wrong point on even a good curve).

Watch the surface land on its source.

If you undo that, then select only ONE surface, it'll go mirror correctly (at least on my machine that is what is happening)...

Hi Steve,

I'm using the ruled surface tool I used to use the other surface tool but it seems that ruled uses less file space, IIRC. I think i got confused by the user manual description.

Some of the lines i create using the curves (output my Delftship Free, as i cannot afford Delftship Pro (>$300) nor the extensions (tank modeling, >$500, IIRC). DSP would provide automated fairing, and

"Instead of using stations, all hydrostatics calculations are panel-based. By integrating the volumes enclosed by the surface panels from the surface definition a higher degree of accuracy is obtained, especially if a heeling angle and trim is taken into account."

But, for now, i have some kinked/curled lines to deal with.

Back to mirroring. So, i'll live with mirroring one surface at a time, whereas one might expect that it should be possible to mirror multiple surfaces. I don't think i have the problem with solids. I need to try that again, as well as some other things.

Thanks for looking into it for me.

ZLC

I'm using VCP, patch 838.

Thanks... been behind this weekend as i am upgrading my Mandriva 2009.0 to 2009.1 (and spent around 9 hours downloading some 2 GB worth of compressed files to enjoy) and spent a lot of time making sure the main things work (VirtualBox, Xine (so i can watch my legally-purchased DVDs on my Linux laptop...), my wireless card (which i'm using now...) and other things. Just guinea-pig-tested my older VirtualBox virtual machine of vista from a previous hard drive, so now i begin the long task of copying the ~20 GB vm from over to this disk.

I hope to back into VCP by midnite my time...

For some lame reason, windows media player complains it is missing the codes. This should be interesting... I bet my Mandriva Linux rig will play your .avi just fine...