Common components reduce the amount of time required for a user to create bulk drawings by connecting pre-created drawings to common parts and assemblies. These common components have preexisting drawings associated with them when used from the IronCAD catalog system in the 3D scene. When you need to make a  bulk drawing for your assemblies, the drawings' look and feel will remain consistent for parts that have already have drawings and will update to the changes performed on these parts/assemblies . This advancement will save time and effort for repeated objects like screws and other small hardware, as well as allowing you to automatically select complicated drawing files for components that are commonly used and take too much time to redraw for each project you work on.

Example of Creating/Loading a Catalog of Common Components from a Folder

To create a common component, you must have an existing scene file with your commonly used part/assembly.  Then create a drawing for that file. Ensure that you place your views and select the correct templates because the layout you choose for this file will remain that way unless you open the file up again and edit it. You can then add the component to your catalog by creating a library of common components that contain your scene files and using The Browse/update common component button that is located in the right-click options of your catalogs. This button will prompt you to select a folder to import into a catalog, so create a folder and add all the files you would like to fill the catalog with. IronCAD also has a grouping feature that will grab subfolders found within the selected folder and create an item in the catalog containing another catalog. Next, use these parts and assemblies in your design. Use the Bulk View Creation tool to create a drawing of your new assembly and these used common components will automatically connect to the drawings in the dialog and will update with the changes in this assembly and will add as sheets to the new drawing file (see the video below).