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Family parameters

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- [Narrator] As I have mentioned, parameters drive a model. Without parameters, our family is one size, one material, and no fun at all. In this video, I'd like to break down the parameters and how they help us. The first type of parameter I want to look at is a family parameter. Now, a couple examples of a family parameter would be maybe the size of the family, dimensions, of course, formulas, materials, visibility, mechanical information, electrical information. The thing with a family parameter is they pertain only to that specific family. When we create a family and create parameters within that family, we'll see those parameters only show up in that one specific family. Now, as mentioned before, we can have many types of the same family. The difference between each type are the family parameters associated with it. The two types are instance and type parameters, meaning that an instance parameter will only change the item you have selected. It's the only instance of that family…

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