Design Variants

Created: November 1, 2022
Updated: July 1, 2024

When a product needs to be designed and produced as a number of variations of that product, where each has different options or capabilities, the ability to implement Design Variants avoids the need to create a unique version of the design for each variation. This Tech Tip looks at a couple of examples of how it is used in Altium Designer.

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