Standard Practice for Drafting in NX

[Nahid Mubin]

In NX, I can make drawing of a part file in two ways. One is to switch to the drafting environment in the same file and start making drawing. Another is to make a new drawing file and start making drawing. Why there is two way? Which one is used in standard practice? Is there any use cases for both of the options?

 

[Toost]

NX has an extremely long history for a piece software. ( If John Baker is listening he can add some details on this.)

Siemens NX - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Back in time the concept was to create everything in a single file, this was before the concept of "assemblies" where other parts where referenced in-to the assembly file.
You created the model , the drawing, the documentation, the CAM, the Finite Elements etc etc all in a single file.

Somewhere early 90-ies, UGS introduced Unigraphics V10 , new user interface and new architecture and, it included Assemblies and along with that the concept of having the different disciplines in different files.

The recommendation is , since then... , to create the drawing in a separate file.
Siemens NX development has a principle of not abandoning the history so you can still do all these operations in single file, which some still do.