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Amount of Use

The family should be one that has multiple members used on a regular basis. Creating one that will never be used does not benefit the company, and provides no feedback as to how well the part was created. Also, if an entire family of parts were to be created, and only one or two of its members used, then the extra effort of creating the family would have been wasted.


Last Modified: Wed Aug 28 14:41:29 EDT 1996

Gregory Marr <gregm@alum.wpi.edu>