Design Variants Category for a Logical Feature

The Design Variants category for a logical feature lists all the design variants (variants or option groups), and the design choices (variant values or options) associated with those design variants.

To access this page:

  1. Open the logical feature. See Opening a Logical Feature
  2. In the navigation pane, click Design Variants.

To open this page from the list of logical features for another object, right-click the name of a logical feature and click View Design Variant.

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Page Tabs

When you open this page by right-clicking a logical feature name, the window includes a Logical View page tab showing basic information about the current logical feature.

The Variants/Option Groups page tab shows all the design variants related to the logical feature. When you select a variant or option group, the Variant Values/Options page tab shows the design choices for that feature.

Columns in the Variants/Option Groups (Design Variants) Page Tab

Column Description
Display Name The display name of the variant or option group.
Name The name of the variant or option group.
Type The object type: Variant or Option Group.
State The current state of the variant or option group in its lifecycle.
Rolled Up True or False. Rolled up means that the variant or option group is inherited upward from a lower-level a logical feature. When you add a variant or option group (as a design variant) to a logical feature, it is inherited upward by the immediate parent logical feature. For example, if the Color design variant is added to the Adapter logical feature, Color is inherited upward by the immediate parent logical feature, which is Power Cord.
Status Active or Inactive. Specifies the availability of the feature for a product configuration. Inactive variants or option groups cannot be used in rules for parts.
Effectivity Condition

Possible Value Description
System The active or inactive status of the design variant has been set by the system through inheritance. Setting the status manually changes the design variant's effectivity condition to User-Defined and overrides any status set through inheritance.
User-Defined The active or inactive status of the design variant has been set manually. After a design variant's effectivity condition is changed to user-defined, it cannot be changed through future inheritance.

In a logical structure with multiple levels of logical features, if the effectivity condition on a parent logical feature is user-defined, and if the same design variant is removed from a child logical feature, the design variant on the parent is not removed. The only way to remove a User-Defined design variant is the Remove Design Variant command on the parent logical feature. However, the Remove Design Variant action cannot be performed on the parent logical feature if it has references in child logical features.

Columns for the Variant Values/Options (Design Choices) Page Tab

Column Name Description
Display Name The display name of the variant value or option.
Type The object type: Variant Value or Option.
Name The name of the variant value or option.
State The current lifecycle state. The only state is "Exists".
Default Indicates whether this variant value or option is the default.

Toolbar Commands for the Variants/Option Groups (Design Variants) Page Tab

Action Description For More Information
Add Existing Design Variant Adds an existing variant or option group as a design variant.

Product Engineers must be licensed for both Variant Analysis and Reuse and Configured BOM to add design variants.

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Make Active/Inactive Toggles the selected variant or option group between Active and Inactive status.

Product Engineers must be licensed for both Variant Analysis and Reuse and Configured BOM to activate or inactivate design variants.

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Remove Removes the selected variant or option group. Click OK to confirm.
Note: If you manually add a variant, option group, variant value, or option to a model version and then add it as a design variant to a logical feature, that variant, option group, variant value, or option is retained in the model version context even if the design variant is removed.

Product Engineers must be licensed for both Variant Analysis and Reuse and Configured BOM to delete design variants.

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