Variant Part Step: Generating a Variant
The final step of the part configuration process allows you to generate a module variant or a product variant. In this step you can reuse, update, or revise an existing matching variant part found by the system, or create a new variant part.
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Alternatively, you can request to generate a variant from the information page of a variant specification by choosing Request Deliverables from the Actions menu.
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1. Review the Module Variants table for existing variants that may be appropriate to reuse, update or revise. If a variant is appropriate, select one of these actions on the variant part:
◦ Use Selected Module Variant—Available for matching variants; select this option to reuse that variant part and associate it to the variant specification.
◦ Update Selected Module Variant—Available for variants checked out to you; select this option to regenerate the variant part and associate it to the variant specification.
◦ Revise Selected Module Variant—Available for checked in variants; select this option to revise the selected variant, generate the variant part and associate it to the variant specification.
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Revise Selected Module Variant is not available when the property wt.generic.variantLinkBehaviorOnRevise is set to nocopy. The Allow revise of non-latest revisions preference available under the Revise node determines the revisions available for revision.
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When none of the existing variants are appropriate, select the following action to generate a new variant.
◦ Create New Module Variant—Create a module variant if the variant specification does not have an associated variant part or the associated variants are not appropriate.
2. To complete the configuration process, click Finish.
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To learn how to carry over custom modeled attributes defined for the configurable module to the variant generated from it, see documentation on Windchill customization.
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