Best way to manage a "project?

I'm working on a small'ish project that will take about 3 different "circuits" and put them onto one board.
I'm not designing it into a large master circuit, at least not at the moment, so I want to design each circuit, and link them to a master file of sorts that will also be linked to the PCB file.
One circuit performs amplification, the other will allow addition of extra devices, and yet another will be the power supply.
whats the best or most effecient way to have all these linked such that I can run a simulation on them by using the designed power supply WITHOUT putting the power supply in each circuit?
Basically what I'm asking here is should I be using subcircuits, or should I make this into a "project"
I really don't know how to use multisim beyond making a circuit and importing it to ultiboard.

Hi,
My suggestion would be to use subcircuits as you want everything to be on the same PCB. This will allow you to have all the sections of the circuit seperated while it all being on the same design and thus being able to transfer to the same PCB.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Tayyab R,
National Instruments.

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