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Continue adding formulas to the top and bottom rails

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Continue adding formulas to the top and bottom rails

- [Instructor] Let's add formulas to the top rail and the bottom rail. I'll orbit around here and get a closer look at the bottom rail. Let's navigate to the bottom rail here in the component attributes window. So the position of the bottom rail, I'm happy with as it is. So I'm going to double click on this attribute to edit that, and move the cursor preceding the value, and then I'll type equals to lock that down, and then press tab to go to the next attribute. And then the Y position is fine, it's centered in the middle of the post as it is, so I'll just put an equals in front of that to lock that. And I'm also just going to lock the height above the ground, at six inches. I'll press tab and go to the next attribute, which is a size attribute, so the length of the bottom rail is actually going to vary. So I'm going to say equals, and that is going to be equal to the length of the picket fence parent component, so I'll click right here and press tab. And you see something changed, it…

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