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Export shared parameters from a file

Export shared parameters from a file

- [Instructor] This week I want to discuss some strategies for working correctly with shared parameters and shared parameter files. Now let me briefly tell you what a shared parameter or a shared parameter file is, just in case you're not aware. When you're creating custom content, either within projects or within the family editor, and you create your own custom parameters you can create those parameters as what we call shared parameter. Now what a shared parameter is is quite simply a parameter that can be used in more than one project or family, thus the name shared. So it can be shared among multiple projects or families. And if you set them up correctly the major benefit of using shared parameters is that they can appear in tags and in schedules. So I have a simple example here on screen where I have two pieces of Casework and if we look over here at the Schedule what you'll notice is the first item is displaying the Width, Depth, and Height, and several materials, while the…

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