Allegro System Capture: Creating Variants and BOM Reports
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6. Select the resistor on the schematic.
The Variant Info bucket is populated with the properties of the selected
resistor.
7. To replace this resistor with another resistor as a preferred part, Click the
Add
Preferred Part button.
Variant Editor allows you to change a part to another preferred part only if the
new part have the same footprint or a compatible footprint. The compatible
footprint can be defined using the file cjdectype.txt which is placed in the
SITE area. All the compatible footprints are listed in the file in different
sections which are delimited using a semicolon (;). In the workshop setup,
we've defined the following footprints to be compatible.
o RESC1608N & CAPC1608N
o RESC2012N & CAPC2012N
8. This opens the Add component for Variants dialog box.
The search criteria of compatible footprint are already applied, and results
are displayed according to it. This ensures that the selected preferred part
has a compatible footprint.
