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Controlling void cut behavior in the Family Editor

Controlling void cut behavior in the Family Editor

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Controlling void cut behavior in the Family Editor

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- [Instructor] This week I want to talk about a relatively new feature in the Family Editor that allows us to control the cutibility of voids from within the Family. So the example that I'm going to do is to add some fluting to the trim boards that you see on either side of this window, and I'm going to do that with a flexible parameter that controls whether that fluting gets applied. So I'm going to highlight this window, but what I actually want to modify is the nested family within that window so if I press the Tab key, notice that that kind of reaches in and finds the trim family and if I click to select that, that is a generic model family and the name of that is very long name that starts with trim and ends with Victorian1, but notice that I've added the letters LIL to the end of the name. So I've already begun the work in my version of this family. If you open the out of the box version of this, the one that…

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