Copy of drawing altering the original

[Longshot30]

Hi,
I am having a problem where I make drawing A and then save a copy of the drawing and rename it B. Now when I go into drawing B and delete any dimensions, those same dimensions are deleted off the original drawing A. If I gave the copy a different name why is it affecting the original drawing?
Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[laik]

Hi,
I suppose it's a dimension created through "Insert - Dimension - New reference" and not by "Show and Erase - Dimension".
Pro / E help says: As you detail your drawing, some drawing entities and information are parametrically associated to the model That it documents. Therefore, changes made ​​within the drawing could result in design changes within the model.
Try to set "create_drawing_dims_only" to yes. This should solve your problem.

 

[Longshot30]

Ok, I found a work-around. I still don't fully understand why, but if I right click on the dimension in drawing B and choose 'erase' instead of 'delete' then it will only drop the dimension on drawing B and not effect drawing A.

 

[dgallup]

This behavior is controlled by this config option:

create_drawing_dims_only YES/NO

Set to NO, the driven dimensions (ones you create in the drawing) are saved in the model, then if you delete them from drawing 2, they are deleted from the model and thus disappear from drawing 1. Erasing them in drawing 2 just does not show them so they still exist and are still visible in drawing 1.

Set to YES, the driven dimensions are saved in the drawing, not the model. With this setting you can delete them from the copied drawing without affecting the original.

I have always set this to YES but also rarely create driven dimensions. I much prefer to show model dimensions.

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