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Creating lintel if parameters

Creating lintel if parameters

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Creating lintel if parameters

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- [Narrator] Not every lintel is the same. Many lintels are similar, though. In the dark days of AutoCAD, we used to keep redrawing these things and have separate blocks for each imaginal configuration, not in rabbit. This video will focus on opening a lintel, we previously made, but this time we'll make some enhancements using an if statement invisibility parameter. Under families, let's go open. Browse where you're keeping your exercise files. I'm going to grab my lintel-opening.rfa, let's click open. Now the first thing I want to do is going to be a little confusing, but I think it will explain itself as we go. Let's create a new family type. So under properties, let's click on family types. Let's click on new parameter. We have a plate thickness parameter, I want to make it plate size parameter. It'll be a tight parameter length. We'll click, okay. Let's match the plate thickness to one half inch and…

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