- [Instructor] In this example we're going to be running
the Symmetry Check tool.
To be able to do that we need to be able to
separate our model in two.
And you see here I've created a plane
directly in the center of my part.
Now this part looks fairly symmetric but I do notice
they are a few things that are not symmetric.
That's why we're going to be running the Symmetry Check
to see really what those things are.
A lot of times if you are working on a design
and you want to make sure it's symmetrical,
you're going to want to just run this check
just in case something happened in your design.
Especially if you have a more complicated design
and make sure you're symmetric.
If not, it's going to point out those things for us.
Go ahead and click on Symmetry Check right up here.
Over here I'm going to define this by the plane.
And that plane's going to be this one right here,
right in the center of that part.
Down here I have a couple different options as far as
adjusting my colors or symmetry faces and such.
Then go ahead and just click on Check.
And it's going to go ahead and run an analysis
of your part and see what's happening.
As soon as this finishes up it's going to give us
a little report here showing all the things
that are not symmetrical and things that are.
So here's my unique faces and it shows 114 of those,
symmetrical faces are 58 and asymmetrical faces are 32.
So it gives you a lot of really good data,
color codes everything for you.
It's a very helpful tool for looking at your design.
Either making sure it is symmetrical or
identifying the items that are not.
Again it's pretty straightforward and easy to run,
SOLIDWORKS does most of the work.
And in fact you can even save that report out,
make some changes and recheck it as needed.
Of course you can change the colors up here
or the different parameters.
Again it's a pretty straightforward and easy tool.
Just make sure you are putting that plane
in the middle of the part obviously,
otherwise it will definitely not be symmetrical.
Either way, it's a pretty useful tool.
SOLIDWORKS does a lot of work behind the scenes for you
and again it's a great thing to run.
Especially if you're making a symmetric part
and you want to verify that it is,
run this tool real quickly before you finish it up
just to verify everything is good to go.