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Offline grouchobyteTopic starter

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Multiple variants in AD18
« on: June 13, 2018, 07:01:32 pm »
I am in no way an expert in using Altium, but have done about a dozen or so designs with AD and now trying out AD18. I have used Allegro, MentorBoardStation, PADs, OrCad, Eagle and various Altium variants dating back to Protel 99SE in past decades just because it was necessary for my job, to meet my clients current budget/ tool requirement or to meet some intransigent assholes selfish need to resist change

Enough history.....and ya, all CAD tools suck (more or less)!

Sorry for the digression,...... so my question to any of you who know this tool ( AD14 to AD18). Is there a proper way to set up a design for a pizza spin ( multiple variants on a panel)?. The stack-ups would obviously all be the same

I would prefer to get started doing it the right way rather than experiment and get a sub-optimal result.

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« Last Edit: June 13, 2018, 07:03:43 pm by grouchobyte »
 

Offline ajb

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Re: Multiple variants in AD18
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2018, 09:47:47 pm »
I just tried it with a board I have handy with several variants defined.  If you save a copies of the target PCB with different variant states and then place those in a panel the panel shows the variant state properly, but I can't see that there's a way to make the variant state carry through to an outjob.  Generating a BOM or PnP file always seems to revert to the variant selected in the outjob or maybe in the project.  The thing that seems to be missing is a way to select the variant for the embedded board object.
 


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