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About Adding Material Parameters to a Family Table
You can assign materials to family table instances by adding a parameter to the family table. Use family tables to control the assigned material by adding the PTC_MATERIAL_NAME parameter to a family table as an item. After the material parameter is added to the Family Table, you can select materials already in the model from the list that appears when you click in a cell in the PTC_MATERIAL_NAME column in the Family Table dialog box.