An As Stored configuration is automatically created for any CAD Document that has references to other CAD Documents, such as Drawings, Assemblies, and parts with references to other parts. As Stored records the precise configuration of references that were present in the Workspace at the time the parent CAD Document was checked in. No As Stored configuration is created for individual parts, as there is no configuration of references to be recorded.

The purpose of the As Stored configuration is to allow you to retrieve parent objects with the same configuration of references that were present when that CAD Document was last checked in, or “as it was stored” in the database

By default, Create As Stored is set to Yes in Preference Management. Create As Stored specifies to create an As Stored configuration upon checkin.

As Stored is particularly useful when working with Drawings and Assemblies. It allows the Workgroup Manager user to retrieve an assembly or drawing using the same related components “as it was stored” with at the point of Check In (as opposed to retrieving Latest versions of all related parts which may have been modified independently of the parent drawing/assemblies during design developments). This is useful in order to get back to a known configuration of drawing or assembly. Baselines also achieve the same result of recording specific configuration of versions/iterations. However, a baseline is a more formal method of capturing a configuration, which is a conscious decision to create a separate managed object that captures a particular configuration of components rather than just “as they were stored.” Often As Stored configuration is used to generate a baseline at a later date, e.g. to create a baseline of a set of drawings/assemblies that need to be reviewed at a design review. You would use As Stored since Latest may pick up some later versions of the underlying parts that have not been detailed in the drawing yet or some that may cause assembly to fail regeneration.

Note that As Stored only considers data in the workspace at the time of Check In. For example, if you are checking in an assembly which has 10 components and only 5 of those components are present in the workspace, then your As Stored configuration will contain only those 5 parts. The other 5 parts will be retrieved according to Latest configuration.