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Reversing a print to create a mirror image (for left & right side parts)?

Posted by Mr Joshua 
Reversing a print to create a mirror image (for left & right side parts)?
May 06, 2014 02:40PM
Hey guys

I just started playing with sketchup a bit and last night created a bracket to hold a big paper towel roll to my tool trolley out in the garage.
I need to print one that faces the opposite way now, but I'm not sure where/how the easiest means is of doing this.

Is there a setting in Sketchup/Repetier/Slic3r that would print a mirror image somehow? Or do I have to create a 2nd stl file facing the opposite way?

Have been looking but not found anything so far.

I've attached the file for the first side (it's "unfixed" by the way).

Thanks!


Prusa Mendel i2 - Melzi V2
Attachments:
open | download - Blue roll 2.stl (46.2 KB)
Re: Reversing a print to create a mirror image (for left & right side parts)?
May 06, 2014 03:22PM
Never mind guys - I searched more and found what I needed.
Mostly I had been looking at Slic3r and Repetier rather than sketchup, but here's the way to do it (yes it means a second, mirrored model):
[help.sketchup.com]


Prusa Mendel i2 - Melzi V2
Re: Reversing a print to create a mirror image (for left & right side parts)?
May 07, 2014 05:44AM
Netfabb also does it easily.


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Re: Reversing a print to create a mirror image (for left & right side parts)?
May 07, 2014 01:52PM
I used to go through a lot of work mirroring stuff, but then one day I realized you can do it with the "Scale" option (in Repetier, at least).

If you scale just the x or the y by -1, it will mirror.
Re: Reversing a print to create a mirror image (for left & right side parts)?
May 07, 2014 06:13PM
Cool!


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