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 look at data shortcuts as a project-management scheme.

By the end of this chapter, you'll be able to:

  • List the project elements that are available for sharing through data ...

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