Using Top-Down Design & workshop drawings

I've got a series of weldments that I'd like to model with a design
table - top down approach as described by Rob Lemmen on this forum on
2001-02-20.

I've been successful in using this top down method to create the
geometry and the design table and the configurations that I want. What
I've not been able to figure out is how create workshop drawings of the
various configurations.

The assembly consists of four sheet metal channels which are modeled
in-place using an assembly sketch to drive the geometry. I'm using a
design table to change the size of the channels and hole locations.

When I create a drawing, I can choose the configuration of the assembly,
but I can't find a way to display the configurations of the component
parts. I assume this is because the component information exists only
at the assembly level.

How can I drive the configuration information in the assembly design
table down into the individual component parts?

Or is there another way I should be doing this?

My goal is to be able to enter parameters for a new configuration in a
design table and easily publish workshop drawings without having to
create a whole family of files for each configuration. I recognize I'll
need to have a separate drawing file for each configuration, but I was
hoping it would stop at that.


Thanks,
Jonathan