Importing a thinkparts component in a think3 drawing

thinkparts comes with a built-in sample series of catalogs. In this example we will see the step by step procedure to mount a screw in a flange hole in a 2D drawing.

Prerequisite to this procedure is the availability of a think3 application licence and the installation of thinkparts catalog browser. A drawing (a flange in our example) must be open in the think3 application; the drawing has a 10mm hole for mounting the screw.

1	Start the thinkparts Catalog Browser command and navigate to one of the sample screws catalog.
2	Open the catalog and select an M10 screw. If you have assigned part numbers to your parts, you may have more than one listed; choose a suitable one.
3	Note on the top right corner of the thinkparts query view the presence of some options that appear only when you are inserting a part in a drawing: View type enables you to choose the part view that you wish to import in the drawing; available views, among others, are Top and Side. We will set this to Side for the sake of this example Free select this option for an unconstrained part positioning Pivot select this option to be able to set the part orientation after defining the position; we will use this option for this example
4	Click OK or double-click the screw or select Import from the context menu. You may have to close the thinkparts query view or move it out of the way to continue.
5	You are prompted to enter the new position: specify the point in the drawing where you wish to add the screw.
6	Because we set the Pivot option, the program expects you to define the orientation by selecting a new point to define the screw rotation.
7	You are enabled to insert more screws of this kind; to stop the sequence, simply press the ESC key on your keyboard.