Hi,
Can anyone please explain me a bit what "Variants" are for in Ultiboard 2001's Ulticap?
Recently I was rearranging my personal libraries in Ulticap and started to experiment with adding packages to symbols. (in order to reduce the number of seperate shapes).
In a symbol properties tab you can add Ultiboard packages and set one of those as the default one. Expecting when in Ulticap placing the symbol that I would get a list of the "available packages" with the default one on top. But unfortunately still a one-line dialog stil is shown with the a question mark or the default package already filled in (and ready to be ok-d or re-entered).
Exporting a schematic from Ulticap to Ultiboard and open the properties dialog of a component that I gave multiple packages in Ulticap still doesn't show the additional packages (to choose from).
So I started to wonder why we can add packages to shapes in Ulticap. I can't find any useful explanation about it in the binder that came with ultiboard 2001, nor I can find anything useful in docs that came with previous versions.
Anyway, I also ran into the "Variants" tab when opening the properties dialog of a shape in Ulticap. It might be something useful for my current issue but unfortunately again there's no reasonable explanation to find in the docs about what they are and what they are used for; just "how to add or change" is explained but not the slightest bit of a brief introduction.
The main goal for me is e.g. having a shape "_ELCO" and on the run select the right package since elco's have a diversity of sizes and I find it unpractical to fill up the library with seperate shapes for elco's of different sizes. Otherwise the lists in the library get too long for browsing through them when placing an other component.
So a brief explanation of the use of adding packages and what variants are for would be very helpful to me.
Cheers,
Roberto
