Variants are defined in the Variant Manager dialog box.

In the following example variants are entered for North American (NA) and European (EU) versions (that is, variants) of a design.

Complete the following steps to define design variants:

  1. Open a new design file in Multisim. In this example, the file name is VariantTest.
  2. Select Tools»Variant manager. The Variant Manager dialog box appears.
  3. Highlight the circuit in the hierarchy that is displayed in the left pane. Default1 is the default name for the initial variant.

  4. Highlight Default1 in the right pane.

    The Rename variant button becomes active.

      The Remove variant button remains disabled, as there must be at least one variant assigned to each design. This button becomes active when there are two or more variants assigned to a design.

  5. Click Rename variant. The Rename Variant dialog box appears.
  6. Enter a new name for the variant (in this example, NA, for North America) and click OK.

    The name of the variant changes to the entered name in the right pane of the Variant Manager dialog box.

  7. Click on Add variant in the Variant Manager dialog box.

    The New Variant dialog box appears.

  8. Enter the name for the new variant (in this example, EU for Europe) and click OK.

    EU appears in the right column of the Variant Manager dialog box.

Complete the following steps to delete variants from your design:

  1. Select Tools»Variant manager to display the Variant Manager dialog box.
  2. Select the desired design in the left pane, and the variant you wish to delete in the right pane.
  3. Click Remove variant.

    The highlighted variant is removed.

  4. Click OK to return to the workspace.

Complete the following steps to rename variants in your design:

  1. Select Tools»Variant manager to display the Variant Manager dialog box.
  2. Select the desired design in the left pane, and the variant you wish to rename in the right pane.
  3. Click Rename variant.

    The Rename Variant dialog box appears.

  4. Enter the New name and click OK to return to the Variant Manager dialog box.
  5. Click OK to return to the workspace.

Complete the following steps to remove components that are not in any of the variants:

  1. Select Tools»Variant manager to display the Variant Manager dialog box.
  2. Click Remove components in the Variant Manager dialog box.

    The Components for Delete dialog box appears.

  3. If you do not wish to remove a component, de-select its checkbox.
  4. Click OK to remove the components from the workspace.