At the moment you'll have to 'edit-out' the ones that you don't want to include. Now if you're running NX 9.0, just go to the Assembly Navigator, which you should see ALL of your components, even the ones not currently seen in your Exploded View. Just select these 'missing' Components, either one at a time or all of them at once, press MB3 and select the 'Properties' option. When the dialog comes-up, select the 'Attributes' tab and in the 'Category' of Attributes titled 'DB Component Instance' you should find two Attributes, which currently has <No Value> assigned, named 'PLIST_IGNORE_MEMBER' and 'PLIST_IGNORE_SUBASSEMBLY'. If your 'missing' part is just a piece part select the first Attribute, 'PLIST_IGNORE_MEMBER', and change the value to 'Yes' and hit OK. If it's a subassembly and you wish to remove all included components in the sub-assembly, edit the value of the second Attribute, 'PLIST_IGNORE_SUBASSEMBLY', setting its value to 'yes' and hitting OK. This will remove those items from consideration when the Assembly parts List updates.
Now if you're running an older version of NX, this still works, just that you'll need to explicitly create whichever of these Attributes you need by going to the Assembly navigator in your Drawing file and adding it wherever you wish, just make sure that you give it a value of 'Yes' before hitting OK.
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