<p>I've got some sliced models that represent the <strong>right</strong>-side arms and legs of a robot. I'm really happy with how they printed, so now I'd like to print the <strong>left</strong>-side arms and legs.</p>
<p>I was thinking it would be pretty trivial to parse the G-code file using Python and change the value of all the <code>Xn</code> commands from <code>n</code> to <code>2*h - n</code>, where <code>h</code> is in the middle of the bed, say 110 or 120 mm for an Ender 3.</p>
<p>Before I fire up my favorite IDE, are there any major gotchas I might encounter from such a naïve approach to mirroring the G-code like this? I originally sliced in Cura 4.9.1.</p>

If your slicer does not have a mirror operation or a scale that allows negative values then mirroring in the G-code should be straightforward.
As long as your printer doesn't have certain specific tool change or homing or purge positions that are done in the G-code you can just transform it, otherwise you would want to skip these sections and just do the model data (it should be obvious looking at the code where model data starts).
In order to mirror it you just need to swap out the X coordinates in your G-code, If (0,0) is the center of your bed, as is often (but not always) the case for delta printers you will just want to negate the X, so
```
G1 X30 Y-3 Z2
```
becomes
```
G1 X-30 Y-3 Z2
```
.  If your coordinates have (0,0) in a corner  (often the case for orthogonal printers) then you want to subtract X from the maximum X value. for instance if your bed is 250 mm wide then in
```
G1 X30 Y10 Z3  X30
```
becomes
```
X(250-30)
```
or
```
G1 X220 Y10 Z3
```
.
There is only one caveat, some slicers will switch to relative movement using
```
G91
```
for certain operations and then back to absolute with
```
G90
```
, so you will want to look out for these. Between a
```
G91
```
and a
```
G90
```
you will want to negate the X, no matter where the origin of your printer is.
When writing your script, I'd keep track of the minimum and maximum values encountered and the new minimum and maximum values and print them at the end as a sanity check so you can see if anything is wonky.