Saving Dimensions to the Part or Drawing
When you create dimensions in Drawing mode, the configuration file option create_drawing_dims_only determines whether the system saves them in the associated part or in the drawing itself.
• When set to no, (the default), it saves all new model dimensions (not draft dimensions) created in the drawing to the associated part or assembly. Draft dimensions are still saved to the drawing.
• When set to yes, it saves all new dimensions created in the drawing in the drawing only.
The setting should depend on your work scenario. If you are using Intralink, if the dims are stored in the model, the model will be marked as modified and will have to be re-submitted back to Intralink. To avoid this every time you reference a model for drawing, you can set the option to yes.
Alternately, if you want to use a set draft datum in a GTOL attached to a dimension, the dimension has to be stored in the model, so you would set the option to no.
Setting the option only applies to new dimensions created, it does not convert existing dimension. If you need to reset the option for an existing dimension, you will need to recreate it.