Sketched lines in Drawing

[HendrikDenner]

I have a drawing of a beam with endplates welded to them, the end plates are modeled to their final size of 20thk, I drew a line on the drawing 5mm away from the end plate using sketch and parametric references. My problem that I have is that I want to change the distance of the line from 5mm to 10mm, I dimensioned to this line to show the size of the beam before Machining. Any help or different method I could / Should be doing this? Attached is a PDF of What I want to do. The Blue phantom line is the line I want to move another 5mm avay from the plate.
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[JonathanHodgson]

IMO, the ability to sketch in the drawing lags way behind the modelling functionality. Recently, I've started doing 'drawing' entities in the model - create a sketch at the appropriate position, and just layer it off wherever it's not needed. This way you can reference all the geometry you like, show additional dimensions, even use relations; and the parametric references are robust and reliable.

[HendrikDenner]

Thanks Jonothan I'll give it a try, I have for the time being decided to rather use reps in the model and do two views of the part, just mkes it easier for the manufacturers. Regards