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Face-based and work-plane-based family placement orientation options

Face-based and work-plane-based family placement orientation options

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Face-based and work-plane-based family placement orientation options

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- [Instructor] This week I want to talk about the placement orientation of families. When you choose your family template and I'm here in the new family dialogue where we have lots of family templates to choose from. When you choose that template, one of the many things that that template does is impart the placement behavior on the family. Will that family be able to be placed anywhere that you choose, at any spot in the model or will it require a certain kind of host, will it come in in a vertical orientation no matter what or will it match the orientation of some face or surface that you're applying it to? And that gets determined by whether or not you choose a hosted behavior or not. Now, there are lost of different hosted behaviors and I'm not going to go through all of them. You can kind of see most of them right here under generic models, we have got wall based and roof based and floor and face based. I'm not…

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