Project: Variant Editor

Variant Editor for VAD Files (VAD_Editor)

Please note:

Since Version 2012, HiCAD has been using the format .VAA for Plant Engineering variants. General variants, too, can now be created in this archive format.

In Version 2013, the previous Variant Editor, ANVAREDIT.EXE, has therefore been renamed to VariantenEditor.exe. For Plant Engineering variants created with HiCAD 2012 or higher, and for general variants in the :VAA format please use only this new Editor.

For other variants (.VAD), the Variant Editor VAD_Editor.exe is still available.

We have designed the HiCAD Variant Editor to support the processing of value tables in variants (:VAD) created with HiCAD. The Variant Editor also enables you to derive new variants, with different content in the value table and name, from an existing variant. The Editor automatically processes files belonging to these variants.

You can derive a particularly wide range of variants from structured variants. In this case, you simply press a button to toggle part elements on or off, transfer variable values from one element to another and much more.

You can import records (in whole or in part) from variant value tables of other variants or text files; whereby assignments between columns in the source and the target table can be specified. It is also possible to make automatic assignments, based on the variable names creating column headings.

It is also possible to export the value table of a variant as a text file.

You can start the Variant Editor from HiCAD or externally.

Start via HiCAD
Activate the Drawing tab.
Select Others > Extras .
Select Variant Editor .
Start externally

Start the application VAD_Editor.EXE in the HiCAD EXE subdirectory.

The User Interface • Edit Simple Variants • Edit Structured Variants • Settings

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