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Using the Is Reference in families

Using the Is Reference in families

- [Instructor] If you've ever worked in the family editor before, then you've certainly worked with reference planes. Now, you may or may not have noticed that the reference planes have a feature called Is Reference, and this setting controls some very subtle but powerful behavior on how those reference planes will behave when they're inserted in files, when they're dimensioned, or when you use the Align tool. So I'd like to look at some of those nuances here, and to do it I have a few different families loaded in this simple file. So we're going to start here with this family, which is just the out of the box desk family. Okay, it's a very simple family file. So let's zoom in nice and close here. Now let's say you wanted to dimension this desk. Now, when you dimension an object, it will sense the location of any reference planes within that object. So let me run my dimension tool, and I'll start to move my mouse around the desk in some of the obvious places, like the edges…

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