There are some ways you can prevent drawings from being updated and/or recreated.
Freeze the drawings where you do not want to update all associative objects on top of the drawing views. The building objects (parts, bolts, welds, etc) are always updated in frozen drawings.
Lock the drawings that you do not want to update.
If you update a drawing that has not been modified , the drawing is recreated. Drawings are automatically recreated unless the drawing has been edited and then saved, or the drawing has been issued using the Issue functionality in the Drawing list. Use the advanced XS_RECREATE_UNMODIFIED_DRAWINGS to control the recreation of unmodified drawings.
To prevent Tekla Structures from automatically updating drawings if the model changes, set the advanced option XS_INTELLIGENT_DRAWING_ALLOWED to FALSE.
