Part Configurations, Assembly Patterns ?

I seem to create many configs of a particular part with different decals and then pattern it in an assembly. As far as I can tell PV 360 does not recognize configs so I then have to explode the configs into separate parts and mate each part which is not really acceptable most of the time due to the complex / high numbers of instances in the patterns.

Does anyone have some suggestions on a better work around?

Thank you,

Jonathan

SolidworksPhotoview 360