Working with Shared Components in a Project

A family that contains nested and shared families works as any other family within a project. However, you can press Tab to toggle to the nested and shared components.

Example

Selecting sub-instances of a shared family

If you select a nested instance, you can do the following:

• On the Properties palette, modify some parameters, such as Mark and Comments.
• On the Properties palette, click (Edit Type), and modify type properties. When you do this, all instances of that type also update to reflect the changes.

If you select a nested instance, you cannot do the following:

• Select and delete a nested instance.
• Mirror, copy, move, or array a nested instance.

  If you do this, the entire host family adapts, not just the nested instance.

• Modify the position, the size, or shape of a nested instance.