I am playing around with welments (structural member feature). I love this feature now. select an 8020 profile, create a 3d sketch of lines sketching the shape of the frame/weldment and bam...solidworks does all the heavy lifting - even making the corner features you want.
I then create a gusset feature on the bottom of the frame as seen in the pic. Then I want to mirror these 4 gusset features to the top of the frame. I create a Plane that at the frame's midpoint and mirror...The preview of the gussets do go in the right spot and fully touch the top 8020 extrudes...but it wont mirror, instead it says "Geometry pattern results in disjoint bodies". I know, it must mean that the gusset is trying to join to "air" but zooming right in it looks like it's joining in the right spot.
(btw: The middle members are not at the halfway point, they are at 9" high, the entire frame is 24" high.)
Any ideas why it's coming back disjoint?
Thanks,
C