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Edit family connectors

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- [Narrator] What I'd like to do is look at what makes a family a family. See, when we have a family that needs mechanical or electrical data, we need a connector added to it. Yeah, we can make a family mechanical equipment, but we don't really know what kind of equipment data that's gonna have appended to it. It's the connector that makes it a family, so let's just start from scratch. Under "Families", let's go "New." What I wanna do is just go down to "Generic Model" and let's hit open. This is just an ambiguous, run of the mill family. Let's make it something though. So on the create tab, let's click on "Family Category and Parameters." I'm gonna come down and I'm gonna make it "Mechanical Equipment." I'm gonna hit okay. Now I'm simply gonna create a big extrusion, I don't care how big it is, I'm just gonna draw a rectangle. I'm gonna click "Finish Edit Mode." Now, if I click "Family Categories and Parameters" it knows it's mechanical equipment and we have values associated with…

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