The edit variant dialog box (Explicit variants)

Edit Variant Dialog

Activation of the variants editor

   To activate the variant editor, click on the variant name zone of the variant navigator or select the Line/ Edit Variants option in the variant menu.

Add/Insert/Remove a variant

  • To add a variant in the list of variants, click on the "Add" button of the window
  • To insert a new variant between two other variants of the list, select the variant before which you want to insert the new one and click on the "Ins" button.
  • To delete a variant, select the variant you want to remove and click on the "Del" button.

Change the color of a variant

    To change the color of a variant, select it and click on the color field (colored rectangle) of the bottom of the window to select it in the color settings dialog box. Once you have selected a new color, click on the "Apply" button next to the "Color" field.

Change the percentage of a variant

    To change the percentage of a variant, select it in the list of variants and change its percentage value in the "Percent" field on the bottom of the window, then click on the "Apply" button.

Change the name of a variant

    To change the name of a variant, select it in the list of variants and change its name in the "Name" field on the bottom of the window, then click on the "Apply" button.

The “Normalize” button

   If your variants have been correctly defined, the sum of their percentage has to be equal to 100%. If it is not the case, clicking on the Normalize button of the Change variants window can solve the problem. It will keep the same proportion between the different variant percentages and will normalize their sum to 100%.

The “Uniformize” button

    The Uniformize button in the Change variants window modifies the values of the variant percentages defined before in order for every of them to have the same value with a sum equal to 100%. If you have for example defined 10 variants, after having clicked on the Uniformize button, each of them will have a percentage of 10%.

Copy/Paste of a variant

    Copying a variant consists in giving all the features (including its operation assignments in the precedence graph) of an existing variant to another one. To do this, select the variant you want to copy in the list of variants of the window and click on the "Copy" button at the bottom of that window. Then select the variant to which you want to paste all the features of the first one and click the "Paste" button