Re-using a 2D Component from a Catalog

This task shows you how to re-use a 2D component you previously referenced in a catalog.

Create a component catalog and enter a new CATDrawing in which you want to insert one or more 2D components.

1. Click the Catalog Browser icon

from the Catalog toolbar.

The Catalog Browser dialog box appears with the following information:

	the name of the currently opened catalog.
	the catalog chapter tree.
	a preview of the selected component.
	the possibility to perform a query on available components (see Knowledge Advisor User's Guide for more details on formulas).

2. Click the Browse another catalog option from the Catalog Browser dialog box and open the BoldSample.catalog document from the \online\driug\samples directory.

3. Double-click the Bolds chapter from the chapter tree.

The list with the components included in the Bolds chapter appears in the dialog box.

4. Click Detail.7 from the list available.
You now have a preview of the component you just selected.

5. Drag the detail from the list and position this detail onto the desired CATDrawing.
(at this step, the dialog is the same as when you re-use a 2D component).

6 Click to end detail location.

What you can also do is display the contextual menu on the selected component and select the Instantiate option. You will then position the component on the CATDrawing.

If you double-click the component from the Catalog Browser, the following dialog box appears which allows modifying the 2D component origin or angle.

	The CATDrawing in which you locally instantiated a catalog component is autonomous. In other words, you do not necessarily need the catalog to be able to read the CATDrawing.
	There is a link that exists between the CATDrawing and the catalog.