Components Center is a cloud service that provides component, BIM standards, and other content that can be used in design, construction, and operational workflows. Components available through this service are self-describing. They are turnkey graphic objects with attributed properties that can automate and drive application behaviors.
Any information can be associated to a component, including specification sheets and manufacturer data sheets, ensuring a complete and single source of information about each component. You can track and manage each instance of a component used in a design. And actions and events can be associated to components as designs progress into construction and ultimately become operational assets.
Users can directly access content from catalogs on Components Center. Organizations can also create their own catalogs drawing from Bentley or manufacturer supplied content or by adding their own content. And project teams can create project specific catalogs drawing from their organizational content.
The result is automation of project start-up and streamlining of design and analytical work, all while ensuring uniform adoption of organizational best practices for BIM. Moreover, content can be progressed through construction and handover, ensuring that assets are managed with the complete intelligence afforded from rich information associated to digital engineering models.