Chapter 10 - Groups & Variants

CadnaA offers efficient features to organize objects in such a way that a file may contain several stages of a project - even with large project files. This considerably simplifies the handling of different project situations (e.g. actual state, planning case A, planning case B) as those situations do not have to be stored in separate files requiring multiple files to be edited when changes become necessary.

In CadnaA objects can be organized in groups. All objects of a group have a common characteristic (being a part of the ID). Up to 16 variants are possible in a CadnaA file making use of these predefined groups. The group formation can be accomplished either manually or semi-automatically using the ObjectTree.

All features are explained in this chapter using examples.