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Linked dimensions and equations

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Linked dimensions and equations

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to be showing you how to create global variables, how to link variables, and how to create equations. Now to get started, we generally want to turn on the equations folder over here. Now notice, I already have it turned on. That's because I already have some equations in there. Now in your system, you might not see this equation's folder. You have it. It's just probably being hidden at this point in time. So come up here to the top, which is this first icon here which is 3.2. Right click on there. And come over here to hidden tree items. And then come down here to hide/show tree items. And then come over here all the way to equations and turn this to show, so it's automatically always going to show the equations folder. Click OK. And now you should see that folder. We also have access to that same folder if you have the toolbars turned on right over here under equations. You can jump into there or just click on the equations folder, right click,…

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