I managed to find myself trying to create a part shape that paired with itself upside-down - like a hook that nested into a copy of itself in an Escher-like fashion by tweaking the original adjacent to an upside-down copy of itself. If we use the mirror operation, changes to the original are matched by the mirrored version, but not after the copy is flipped into the appropriate position to fiddle with the mutually-changing shapes. I managed to do this in a less-than-ideal way using Inkscape, as the clone continued to respond to the original changes after I rotated it into position. I then imported the .svg into MoI and ironed out the features, careful not to corrupt the fit. But is it possible to skip another program and retain the corresponding changes in the copy even after I have rotated and positioned it in MoI?
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