Hi Can someone tell me how the word “ parent” is used?
or is there any tutorial or instructions how is used?
Regards Kostas
Hello 
I guess it is just like in real life and what a parent can or has to be. He’’s the one giving the main guidelines, main rules.
Dynamics components are made of rules, and when you have parents, you have children. Children inherit the rules given by their parents. It allows you to have, through those children, more specific rules that still stick to the more fondamental ones.
There are many tutorials about that, but don’t trust the Montessori’s ones too much 
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It’s a hierarchy
The Parent is the higher level object
Child objects are ones that are within that and they inherit properties
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With Dynamic components, the ‘parent’ refers to an upper level component within a grouping of nested components. The outer most component that you would interact with that has nested components can be manipulated by size, color, position, visibility etc. Some manipulations can be passed down to children components using custom variables, they get referenced by either using the upper components name or the generic “parent”
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When writing formulas, Parent! avoids possible typos, and keeps formulas shorter and easier to read. It also makes it easier to re use child components in other DCs.
Thank you rwamoore
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If you want to experience many levels of nested components with multiple variable inputs and controls check this out. The model is not beautiful, but the mechanism was lesson in manipulation. boom Lift - Model - 3D Warehouse
cheers
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That’s a really fun DC man!
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Thank you. I was actually trying to answer a forum question about pivoting a computer monitor swing arm, and made this to learn how to control rotation inside nested components. This uses rotate for all 3 axis’. And I had to learn passing variables to children, and the importance of container components to control size and origin. I might put more time in down the road to make the model more fun to look at.
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