Assembly's Parts Unpickable in Drawing

Have any of you experienced this:

I have an assembly (of about 30 parts) that has several configurations.
Most configurations contain exploded views.

I created a multi-sheet drawing. Each page of that drawing contains a
different configuration of said assembly, and most contain the views in an
exploded state.

In a typical view, I cannot select edges of the exploded parts. The only
way I can is to open the assembly, activate the configuration that's in the
drawing view, and explode the assembly. Then, all edges are available for
picking as normal.

I can't imagine that this is normal behavior. Do any of you know anything
about this? I'd appreciate the help.

Thanks,

Brian

 

This has been a problem for a while with SW. Since 2003 as far as I
know. I saw your topic title, and was ready to tell you to, Open the
assembly and activate that config, then go back to the drawing. Looks
like you already figured that one out. Hope someone else has a better
solution!