Special features of variants

Group treatment

Objects that are placed in models can be stored in various groups.

When you create variants of group contents or model variants, the group structure in which the sources are stored is duplicated in the group you select for the variants.

Variants of objects that are stored in the same group as the source models are stored in the same group as the model variant. Variants of objects stored in another group as the source models are stored in copies of the source groups.

If a target group with variants is to be created as subgroup of the source group, a message is displayed that variants cannot be created. You must select another group to save the variants.

Exclusion groups

You can specify groups whose objects are to be excluded from variant creation. If variants are created from models that contain objects in these groups, occurrences are created from these objects instead of variants.