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Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints

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Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to look at reference planes, constraints, and parameters. Now using reference planes, you establish the overall extents and form and structure of your family, and using parameters and constraints, you can apply rules to those reference planes to allow your family to become flexible or parametric. So there's a little bit of legwork that we do when getting started in a family editor before we actually start building any 3D geometry, and so these three things, reference planes, parameters, and constraints, are really important setup tasks that you want to get in the habit of doing. So the first thing I want to do is here in the floor plan, I want to point out to you that we have these two existing reference planes. This one right here if I select it, you can see it's called center front back, and it's pinned, and this one right here is called center left right, and it's also pinned, and the pinning just means that you won't be able to move it…

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