: Making Box Packaging in Illustrator. Symbol are mirror image problem! So i have a rectangular box on illustration. I have added 4/6 sides as symbols. So for the front i added the correct symbol

@Turnbaugh909

The reason your back side looks like "A mirror image no matter how you rotate it" is because, the back side symbol for a 3D cube using the Illustrator 3D Effect should be reflected and right side up. You don't want to rotate it it at all, you want to just reflect it.

The sides need to be rotated, but not the back face.

Here's a simple image to show how the symbols need to be set up.



Note the 2 is a mirror reflection, 3 is rotated 90° counterclockwise, and 5 is rotated 90° clockwise. In this image the 2 is the back face, 3 the left face, and 5 the right face.

The 6 and 4 may need to be rotated depending upon how you want the cube to sit.



You can apply symbols to faces, then double-click the symbol to perform the rotation or reflection on the symbol. The 3D effect should update to show the symbol changes.

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