Autodesk Inventor
Hi Cadmanto,
Re: the original question
Opening a part from CC, saving a copy of it, and then making that file an iPart factory, should allow you to use Change Component just like any other iPart. In fact the screen shot I showed was from an iPart that I created following just those steps.
Re: publishing to CC
Your first series of bullet points is what I will try believing what you are saying that if I was to republish the iparts (originally copied from CC) back into CC would allow me to switch iparts from the factory within the assembly it is inserted into.
As for this workflow, I get a little confused when you say:
"allow me to switch iparts from the factory within the assembly it is inserted into."
If you've published an iPart factory to CC, then you would use the CC tools to work with that family of parts in an assembly. You would sort of forget about the iPart factory after that. You're really only creating (and keeping it around afterwards) as a template to use for publishing. Once you've published the iPart to CC, there is not a connection between the iPart factory file and the CC files. You could actually delete the iPart factory if you wanted. But it's probably wise to keep it around in case you ever need to republish, etc.
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com
Re: Creating iparts from Content Center
Hi white127,
Ahh, you're quite right. As soon as I read fitting just now, it occurred that I remember skimming across something about fittings earlier in this thread. And now I see that you pointed this out right from the start.
Soooo, it does work as I described for CC parts other than fittings and < insert other oddball CC parts that I'm not aware of here >. 
Sorry for the confusion. 
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com
I found this comment in another thread that may shed some light on why the pipe content behaves differently than other CC parts:
dave.anderson wrote:Tube and Pipe content will behave differently that other placed components. Even ones that you insert using Place from Content Center will show in the browser with a Pipe Icon and not a Part one.
This is due to the Tube and Pipe add-in. What you can do is disable the Add-in prior to inserting any T&P parts. This forces them to behave as "normal" parts and they can be restructured. I would not suggest this if they are part of a Pipe run, but for simply placed content it's fine.
Dave Anderson
MFG Support - Inventor
Autodesk, Inc.
The original thread is here:
Re: Creating iparts from Content Center
Hi everyone,
It turns out that it is the Tube and Pipe Addin that makes the fittings behave differently. If you have Inventor Professional but don't use the TP tools, or if you use it sometimes, but not others, then it might be worth unloading the TP addin. It's not recommended to do this when working with assemblies that use routes created with the TP tools of course, because you'll likely break some of the TP magic that resides with in them.
To unload the add in, go to the Tools tab and click the Add-ins button. In the Add-In Manager dialog box, locate the Routed Systems: Tube and Pipe addin and select it. Uncheck the Loaded/Unloaded checkbox to unload it. Note that if it's greyed out Inventor is using it (possibly just Content Center having the TP libraries loaded), and you might need to uncheck the Load on Startup checkbox and then restart Inventor.
So once I unloaded the TP addin, the fitting iPart that was always behaving as a fitting, now behaved like a regular iPart factory.
Give it a try and let me know if you don't see the same result, and I'll have another look.
p.s. Thanks to Dave Anderson of AD for the suggestion.
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com
Edit: I was too slow cwhetten beat me to it! 
