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- [Instructor] Okay, this one's pretty cool. The thing is when we make a family with tons of different types, it can fill up our type selector with dozens of family types we'll never need. Wouldn't it be nice if we could choose the only type we want when we're loading the family? This video have us exporting family types. Then we're going to insert the family into a project like we would normally do, and then we can choose the types we want by choosing from a dialog. It's the same dialog you see when we load beams and angles and things like that. So to get started, I want to open our nut family. Let's go to open. Browser where you're keeping your exercise files there should be a family called Nut. Click open, go to a ref level, but it really doesn't matter. Let's go to the family types dialog. Now what we'll see here is no family types, but let's look at our rod size. So all of our family types are going to respond…

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