I would like to expand an older idea:
The current “Place in CAD” command works great! But more and more people work item-driven. So my suggestion is to have the “Place in CAD” also in the item list:
- if the selected item has no linked model and
- the active Inventor window is an assembly, the item is inserted as a virtual component or
- the active window is something else, nothing happens. (Okay, maybe a notification.)
- if the selected item has a model as a primary link I get a selection box for either the model or the item and
- if I pick the model, it works like the “Place in CAD” of a file or
- if I pick the item, see above