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Seed families

Seed families

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Seed families

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- [Voiceover] If you've ever created family content before, then there's a pretty good chance that you needed to create two families that were similar to one another. Now, like any file, you can do a Save As, and take an existing file and create a version of it that's similar to the original. And in fact, that's gonna be the subject of this movie today is I wanna talk about how you can leverage that really simple concept of using Save As to create what I like to call seed families. Now, a seed family is just a family that you can use as a starting point to create several other similar families. So, if you need to create several families like several pieces of case work, or several pieces of furniture, several lighting fixtures, then creating a seed first that has all of the basic settings in it that you're interested in, can certainly be a much more productive way to go. So I have a really simple example right here.…

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