I made part of a Lego model that I wanted to "mirror", just flip about an axis. It's "just bricks" so I didn't have to worry about wings or funny shapes or anything. I'm surprised Lego Digital Designer doesn't have this.
Anyway, I figured the easiest way to do this was to export it into an LDraw (ldr) file, then since that's plain text, just flip the - signs on the appropriate coordinates.
Here's the little program I used to do this (C#, Windows). After compiling, just say something like:
SimpleLcadMirror infile.ldr outfile.ldr y
Hmm, don't know how to "compile" it you say? On Windows it's reasonably easy.
Open cmd (win+r, type cmd, press enter)
notepad SimpleLcadMirror.cs
Copy the stuff below into that file and save it
Type this into the cmd and press enter:
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\csc.exe SimpleLcadMirror.cs
It should compile and give you a SimpleLcadMirror.exe
Then 'just' run it from the cmd line:
SimpleLcadMirror.exe yourfile.ldr newfile.ldr x y
// Simple utility to mirror an LCAD file using System; using System.IO; class MirrorLCad { static void Main(string[] args) { String filenameIn = null; String filenameOut = null; bool mirrorX = false; bool mirrorY = false; bool mirrorZ = false; bool round = false; if (args == null || args.Length < 3) { return; } filenameIn = args[0]; filenameOut = args[1]; for (int i = 2; i < args.Length; i++) { if (args[i].Equals("x")) { mirrorX = true; } else if (args[i].Equals("y")) { mirrorY = true; } else if (args[i].Equals("z")) { mirrorZ = true; } else { PrintUsage(); return; } } PrintWarning(); var inFile = new StreamReader(filenameIn); var outFile = new StreamWriter(filenameOut); String line; while ((line = inFile.ReadLine()) != null) { // Very boring in line detection, only type one, and only if syntax has no strange stuff line = line.TrimStart(); if (line.StartsWith("1 ")) { string[] parts = line.Split(' '); // We care about x, y, z, - 2, 3 & 4 // 1x y z a b c d e f g h i if (mirrorX) { parts[2] = mirror(parts[2]); } if (mirrorY) { parts[3] = mirror(parts[3]); } if (mirrorZ) { parts[4] = mirror(parts[4]); } foreach (var part in parts) { outFile.Write(part); outFile.Write(' '); } outFile.WriteLine(); } else { // Don't do anything to strange line outFile.WriteLine(line); } } outFile.Close(); } static String mirror(String value) { Console.Write('.'); if (value.StartsWith("-")) { value = value.Substring(1); } else { value = '-' + value; } return value; } static void PrintUsage() { Console.WriteLine("Usage:"); Console.WriteLine("SimpleLcadMirror [x] [y] [z]"); Console.WriteLine("y is vertical, z is depth, x is horizontal"); } static void PrintWarning() { Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("ONLY ARRANGES PARTS POSITIONS, doesn't swap parts (eg: left/right wing, etc)"); Console.WriteLine("Intended for simple brick/plate structures on a simple axis, square to the grid"); } }