About Options and multi-project designs
Import and compare variations of network designs
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About Options
An Option is a version of a design (for example, a line or route) and Neara provides intuitive and powerful features to simplify the comparison of different Options for when you need to compare alternative solutions to a design problem.
Neara's comparison features highlight the differences between the new and existing Options, to track changes and aid decision-making.
If you do not see the features shown here in your Neara projects, or need assistance creating and managing design Options in your projects, contact our Customer Success team using the Contact Us option at the top of this screen.
Alternatively if you are logged into the Neara web app use the chat button in the lower-right corner of the screen.
About multi-project designs
While these features work well in a single project setup, Neara's Options import and comparison features are especially useful if you have segmented a large design into separate Projects, each worked on by different teams or contractors:
Neara makes it easy to import design Options from related sub-projects into a consolidated main design, and compare the new designs to existing ones.
The examples in this tutorial use a multi-project setup. However you can create and compare design Options within a single project. Contact us to discuss how to setup your project to support this.
Next steps
Using a multi-project design? See: Importing a design Option from a related project
or skip to: Comparing design Options