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DNI/DNP without variants

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Scutarius:
Hi,

I (think) know and understand how variants work, I am just curious if any use DNI/DNP components in any different way.

Some times I have one jumper or a couple of resistors in parallel/series with something else just in case for the first rev, if I don't want to create a variant is there any "right" way to do it? how do you normally manage it?

Thanks,

ajb:
I just use a variant  :-// 

Our project templates are setup with a 'standard' variant used for all outjob outputs by default, so it's already there whenever I need to toggle a part.

You can also create specific "DNI" or "TBD" components for your standard passives and place those in lieu of a standard part.  I frequently use the latter for parts I'll come back and calculate values for later, but I'm not a fan of leaving either part on production BOMs -- using Altium's DNI flag via the selected variant lets those parts get filtered/grouped more effectively, and if you sometimes use variants anyway, better to be consistent and use variants for all DNI parts IMHO. 

asmi:
Some people set the value to DNP for those DNP parts.

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