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Reuse structured data

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Reuse structured data

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- [Instructor] One of the major benefits of having all of this structured data in your mechanical browser in AutoCAD Mechanical is the fact that the data can be reused. The components can be reused from the structure in the mechanical browser. Now what I've done in the Robot001 drawing is I've done a zoom extent and kind of zoomed out a little and moved everything over to the left-hand side to give me plenty of space over here in the drawing area. I'm going to go to the mechanical browser now, and I'm going to go to the basement component here. I'm going to right click on it, I'm going to go to insert, and I'm going to go to component view. Now I want the front view, like so. And now it prompts me to specify the parent view. Now the parent view is the top view in this case, for Basement1, because it is nearest to Basement1. So I just, can you see? It says top there in the brackets on the command line. I just press Enter to accept that, and now I've got a front view of the basement…

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