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Labeling a component family

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Labeling a component family

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- [Instructor] In projects that have a lot of these placeholder families it can eventually be hard to differentiate one from another. So I'm going to show you a technique for providing labels, so that you can tell similar placeholder boxes from each other. Before we do that we need to turn off this color scheme that is separating out our different room types, because the color scheme can interfere with visibility of the labels. So let's go to our View Template, open it up, and scroll down to Color Scheme, click on it and choose none, OK, OK. And now we're ready to modify the family. You can either click on it, Edit Family, or just double-click on the family itself. Let's go to our Floor Plan view. And now we want to go to the Annotate and choose Symbol. What we're doing here is we're actually placing a nested family within our family. And this is an annotation family going within our component family. Click on Symbol and it notes that there are no annotation families loaded in. So we…

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