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Swap out shared families and non-shared families

Swap out shared families and non-shared families

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Swap out shared families and non-shared families

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- [Instructor] This video I want to talk a little family management, specifically, shared families versus non-shared families. So, sometimes, when you build your family content you will nest in other families to help you build the various parts and pieces. And the decision of whether or not to make those nested components shared or not is what I want to discuss here in this video. So I've got several pieces of casework here, on screen, and a couple of them are using nested families for the cabinet fronts. Now, the two that are doing that are the sink base here and the double door base next to it, and there's another instance of that over here. So, the rest of them, the cabinet fronts are just extrusions built right into those families. Now, while that's certainly okay, the disadvantage of doing that is, if you want to change the design of the doors, you know, go from a flush door to a raised panel door, or a solid door…

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