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Potential problem with imported working models

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Potential problem with imported working models

- [Instructor] In this video I'd like to introduce you to a potential problem that comes up when you author dynamic components. In the exercise files folder, you'll find a working models sub folder. Let's open up the Working_Shelves model and take a look at it. Here we have the shelving unit. We're not going to delve into the complexities of making this in this video. Instead, we're just going to look at the finished result, which is what we see here. And I've opened up the outliner here to help me visualize the structure of our component. And you can open that from the Window menu on the Mac or from Window, default tray, outliner in Windows. And then the outliner has these arrows you can open up to visualize the nested structure that you have within your dynamic component. At the top level of that we have the name Shelves. And this is the definition name of our component. So up here in Entity Info you can see that the definition name is given here and we can change that. I'll call it…

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