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- 3.6.3 VERIFY FAMILY
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- The VERIFY FAMILY command is used to highlight any inter-entity relations
- or families.
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- A number of commands automatically create inter-entity relationships such
- as drawing text referencing a tnode, or drawing exploded symbols or
- dimension entities. These commands can set up parent-child or equal member
- relationships between entities. The command LINK ENTITY can also be used to
- set up custom relationships between entities. As the relationships are
- made in the X-CAD database and are not visible as such on the drawing, the
- VERIFY FAMILY command can be used to check or verify inter-entity relation-
- ships.
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- COMMAND FORMAT
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- #VERIFY FAMLY [modifiers] :Ent x1 [:Ent x1 ... ]
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- If no modifiers are used with the command, for each entity identified, its
- complete family of child and equal members will be highlighted. A message
- listing the number of members in the family is displayed to the console
- window. To move on to the next family or terminate the command, the small
- window with the message "CONTINUE?" that appears in the bottom right of the
- display should be clicked with the mouse.
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- If any of the child or equal members of the entity identified are in turn
- parents of further entities, these entities and their families are also
- highlighted. A recursive search is put into action to find all members
- below or equal in the hierarchy starting at the original parent entity. If
- the identified entity is a child member of another entity, its parent is
- not highlighted as the search does not move up the family tree, only down.
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- MODIFERS
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- IMMEDIATE The IMMEDIATE modifier is used to limit the family search
- to one level only. The direction of the search is determined
- by one of the four keywords which must follow this modifier:
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- PARENTS Only highlight any entities which are parents
- to this entity.
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- EQUALS Only highlight entities which are equal
- members to this entity.
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- CHILDREN Only highlight entities which are child
- members to this entity.
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- ALL ALL is a combination of PARENTS, EQUALS and
- CHILDREN.
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