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Use families to populate changes

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Use families to populate changes

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- [Instructor] So the benefit of using families in my project is that for example, if I open the family, this is 3D masses treated like they were before, but you see for example if I I pick that here and I made a change to it, so if I grab the end of the wall pull it up to make it of varying height and I bring it back into my project and I say overwrite the old ones, you see that what's going on is all of the families are updating at once, so it's a good way to pass change through the model, that's part of the mistake here it didn't apparently copy that up correctly. So if I pick that click Board align to two and three, along the lines that I should be for if I pick this family I can say edit the family and look at the floor plan here. What I'm going to do is just add something to the family say I've got a shading device, so it goes from front here and goes back. And going to create 3D form from that, look in the 3D view. We can see it's sitting there and I'm going to take that and…

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