Components Center is a cloud-based digital component library and catalog management service. It allows organizations to efficiently manage their component libraries while providing their users with industry approved components via subscriptions to repositories managed directly by component manufacturers. CONNECTED Enterprises can subscribe to industry repositories that are managed by manufactures, who can produce publicly available repositories that can be used for creating component libraries with Components Center. The libraries will be monitored and updated as the industry repositories evolve. The geometry and rich data associated with the components will be available for use in all phases of the component's lifecycle.

An organization's component administrator can create custom catalogs from their enterprise libraries ensuring that the correct digital components are used during the design phase. Users can then place these components as parametric cells in their design. These components can then be managed by the iModel Hub as design changes are detected and change sets are sent to the Hub.

The Components Center Explorer dialog lets you place components in the design

The following diagram provides an overview of the Components Center.