Help Idetifying meaning to Icon in assmebly

[larft]

Currently using 2023 Inventor Professional, I was opening an assembly from the vault and noticed one part won't let me interact with it. It will appear in the BOM but is not visible in the assembly and won't even give me the option to view it or replace it. The part is in the vault so it would be an easy fix I have just never seen this purple icon before. Which is the part that is refusing to do anything. It also doesn't appear in the vault list of parts only the assembly BOM. It is just odd curious if it was just a glitch or something else.

[kacper.suchomski · Accepted solution]

Hi

This is a virtual component. Such items are created, for example, for gear oil - they cannot be modeled, but must be taken into account.

[James_Willo]

To see it in Vault I think you have to use 'Items' as the virtual component is not a part on disk.