Place layered AI file into another AI file and keep layers or request layer to import?

[Randy CorpGraphics]

Is it possible to place an AI file with layers into another AI file and keep layers? Or is it possible to request which layer to place (similar to InDesign)?

[Monika Gause]

When placing an AI file, you place the PDF part of that file, but Illustrator does not access the PDF "layers"

[Ton Frederiks]

Copy and Paste with Paste Remembers Layers checked is the way to keep them.

[Randy CorpGraphics]

Yes this is a good reminder of how to keep cut and pasted layers intact, however I was hoping to have the option to link to a file and then if/when updates are made to the linked file the artwork would auto-update in the host file. (Like InDesign).

[Monika Gause]

If you place/link your AI file into another one, then of course this behaves like when you place in InDesign.

But you do not have access to the layers of the placed file while yo're in the host file.

[Randy CorpGraphics]

Correct. I was hoping to have the option to select which layers could be imported when placing a linked file (similar to InDesign), sorry that was unclear on my part.

[Monika Gause]

It wasn't unclear at all. I have answered it on Oct 22