Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008
Full of advanced techniques and insider tips, this tutorial-based guide will help you understand concepts, create perfect designs, and manage every stage of the project.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008
Chapter 17: Sharing the Model Data Shortcuts
No man is an island, and it's the rare designer who gets to work alone. Even in a one-person design team, breaking the project into finite elements, such as grading, paving, and utilities, makes sense from a plan production and management standpoint. To do this effectively, your design software has to understand and have some method for sharing the design information behind the drawing objects. Civil 3D has two mechanisms for creating a project environment with project information sharing: data shortcuts and Vault. In this chapter, we will look at data shortcuts as a project-management scheme. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
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List the project elements available for sharing through data shortcuts and those that cannot
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Create a data shortcut file from Civil 3D objects
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Import a data shortcut and create references
What Are Data Shortcuts?
Data shortcuts allow the cross referencing of design data between drawings. To this end, the data is what is made available, and it's important to note that the appearance can be entirely different between host and any number of data shortcuts. We will use the term !data shortcut ! or, more simply, shortcut when we discuss selecting, modifying, or updating these links between files.
This chapter will focus strictly on the creation and use of data shortcuts. In Chapter 19, we'll look at how using Vault compares and discuss the relative advantages of each method. We'll also look at a possible project-management methodology.
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