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Using the design library

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Using the design library

- [Instructor] The Design Library is a great resource to be able to save individual information and then reuse it throughout your design process. Let me give you a couple of simple examples. Right over here I've got a note called out on my design already and if you wanted to create that note, it might take you a little while to go search out and find out what NC standards might be or some of the actual finishing standards and so on. So if you've done all that work, it might make sense to save that note into the Design Library. So if you go over here to the library, click on this one, Design Library, and then go ahead and make sure that you have this selected first and then come over and click on add to library, right? You can change the name of this so I'm going to call it like right in here we're going to type in AL so it's aluminum that's anodized and then right now I'm going to save into the annotations folder and then click on okay. Once I've done that, notice it shows up right…

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