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Creating hidden parameters in family content

Creating hidden parameters in family content

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Creating hidden parameters in family content

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'm going to talk about a special little procedure you can do to create a custom parameter that is hidden from your users. So why might you want to do this? Well, when you're building family content, sometimes you create parameters that have the purpose of driving other geometry or checking for errors and correcting them before they break the family, and you might not want the users to fiddle with those parameters or their values at all. So if that's the case, you can actually create a parameter that's invisible. It will show up in the family editor, but then when you load it into a project, it won't appear. So I'm going to demonstrate that by editing this conference table family that you see right here. Now this conference table family is using an array to determine how many chairs you have on each side. If I go to the type selector and I choose a different size, it resizes the length of the…

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