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Maintain fixed proportions with equality dimensions

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Maintain fixed proportions with equality dimensions

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- [Speaker] By now it shouldn't surprise you to hear that there's more than one way to do things in the family editor and establishing a fixed set of proportions to a family is no exception. So in the previous video we looked at setting up the proportions with formulas, and admittedly, we did a pretty simple example of just tying together x and y. Here I'm going to also do a relatively simple example but I'm going to use equality dimensions instead of formulas to establish basically the same relationship. So what I have here is a scotcha profile, and initially it looks a little busy on screen because of all the reference planes. So let's talk about the reference planes a little bit later. For right now what I'm going to do is select these light green ones and come down here and click the sunglass icon and hide those elements in the view. So now it's a little easier to understand what we've got to start with here in this particular profile. So at the top I have a quarter round arc, and…

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