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# Variant Construction

The whole is more than a compilation of its parts - and, with SISCAD-P, the other way round. Drawings of individual parts which you copy from the composition drawing will keep their parametric properties. Just by pressing a button you can create a table of variants for it. This means that you create the variants you require without additional effort.

- User-friendly
  Drawings of individual parts can be easily extracted from the composition drawing through a lasso or by selecting them directly.

- Flexible
  Using the flexible measuring commands you link geometry and measure. When you modify the geometry, SISCAD-P will adapt the measures automatically. When you modify the measure, SISCAD-P will adapt the geometry. This flexible tool will minimize your modification efforts.

- Standardized
  SISCAD-P's table of variants is designed according to characteristics bars (DIN 4000/4001); this enables you to communicate with the rest of the EDP world.

- Fast and easy
  With SISCAD-P you can create variants without additional programming effort. You just press a button, and you can check the consistency of your new variant right away. If you want, the variant can be generated immediately after this check.

- Supporting
  Direct relation to the drawing is important.
  This is supported by SISCAD-P: you just select a column in the table of variants, and the relevant measure will be highlighted in the drawing.

- Decisive
  Sometimes it is the case that conditional statements have to go with the connection of parametric dimensions. This is possible within SISCAD-P. You may take the same system for variant tables as you have in decision tables.