Variant Editor

The Variant Editor for Plant Engineering enables the editing of value tables in variants (VAA, .VAD) which have been created with HiCAD. Furthermore, you can derive new variants from existing variants, which will then differ in content of the value table an in name from the original variant. The files belonging to the variant will be processed automatically.

A particularly wide range of part variants can be achieved when deriving new variants from structured base variants. For instance, individual elements of parts can be switched on or off at the push of a button, variables values of one part element can be applied to another, and much more.

Data records of variant value tables can be imported, partly or entirely, from other variants or text files; in the process, arbitrary assignments can be defined between the columns of the source table and the target table. Assignments can also be realised automatically, via the variables names that constitute the column headers.

In addition, the Variant Editor offers the option to export the value table of a variant in the form of a text file.

The Variant Editor can either be started from HiCAD, or externally.