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622 | ChaptEr 14 Designing with the Family eDitor

Understand family modeling techniques. While the Family Editor contains a wide
assortment of modeling and editing tools, you don’t always need to build everything in one
file. You can utilize a number of techniques to reduce redundancy and manage complex
geometry for a component family.
Master It When would you consider using the technique of nesting families? How
could this method improve the efficiency of a component family?
Apply extended family management techniques. Sometimes parametric behavior
will depend on the parameters that directly control it, but often these parameters will be
expressed as a relationship to something else.
Master It Why are formulas so important? Why not just create the parameters you need
and then modify them as needed in the project environment?

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