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product variant. Start by creating the new variant from inside the Design Explorer and naming it
budget.
Notice that this gives us a new column in the component grid. Each entry currently has a tick
which indicates that the part is fitted on the board for the variant. If we click on the entries for the
budget column on U3 along with R5, R6 and R7 they will change to a cross. Clicking on the
apply changes button at the top will then set these parts to be excluded from the BUDGET
variant.
When you have more than one variant on the schematic you can switch between Active
Variants via the variant combo box at the top of the screen. When we switch to budget variant
you should see that the part reference for the temperature sensor circuitry will be greyed out to
indicate that the part is not present in the active variant.