Update Project Variants From Library
Created: July 28, 2015 | Updated: August 19, 2017
| Applies to versions: 15.1, 16.0, 16.1, 17.0 and 17.1
Now reading version 16.0. For the latest, read: Update Project Variants From Library for version 22
Summary
This dialog allows you to select parameters to be used when the selected project variants are updated.
Access
The Update Project Variants From Library dialog is accessed from the PCB editor using the following steps:
- Right-click in the Component Parameters region of the Variant Management dialog (Project » Variants).
- Select Update Values From Library.
- Click OK in the resulting Browse Libraries dialog.
Options/Controls
- Parameters from Grid - lists of all parameters and their values of the selected component. Check the box to select the parameters to be updated. Parameters are grayed out if they cannot be used to update (e.g., when no components contain a parameter of that name).
- Project Variants To Update Grid - a list of all variants that currently exist in the project. Check the box to select the variants to be updated.
- Choose Component - click to open the Browse Libraries dialog in which you can search for components.