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this tutorial on civil 3D data shortcuts
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assumes you've already got an existing
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ground surface such as the one you see
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here which was created in the previous
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tutorial the purpose of data shortcuts
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is to allow you to reference Cil 3D
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objects between drawings it allows us to
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do things like keep our existing ground
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surface in one drawing but use it in our
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design drawing for surface profiles
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volumes Etc xrfs would allow you to see
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line workk from another drawing but you
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wouldn't be able to use it for Cil 3D
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functionality the data shortcuts allow
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you to control the style of the EG
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surface in your design drawing as well
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as use it for targeting the interface
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for data shortcuts is in the prospector
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tab of tool space below the drawing area
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you'll see data shortcuts the first
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thing we need to do is set the data
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shortcuts working folder and the project
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we'll right click on data shortcuts and
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say set working folder there's a number
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of ways you can organize your data
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shortcuts we're going to assume that
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we're going to keep the shortcuts right
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inside of our project so I'll set the
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working folder one level above my
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project so the p drive for
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me and then I'll make a new data
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shortcut project folder and I'm going to
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make it exactly the same as my project
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which
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is
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20161 what that's going to
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do is set the data shortcut project
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which is
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20161 what that's going to do is set the
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data shortcut project folder and
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automatically in that folder structure
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it's going to create this underscore
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shortcuts folder which the program needs
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for the data shortcuts to function
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correctly you should never put anything
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in this underscore shortcuts folder uh
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or do anything to the files inside of it
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they're just XML files that the program
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uses to organize the data
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shortcuts once I've got that set what
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I'll want to do is save the drawing and
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then right click on data shortcuts and
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say create data shortcuts that will
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allow the existing ground surface we've
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created to be available to any other
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drawings that reference this data
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shortcut
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project if you don't save first what
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happens is when I go to create data
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shortcuts so I'll right click data
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shortcuts and say create data shortcuts
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check my EG surface and say
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okay now underneath data shortcuts
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you'll see surfaces EG
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you also notice the other kinds of
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objects we can create data shortcuts for
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alignments and then therefore profiles
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pipe networks and then new for 2017 uh
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corridors now that that data shortcut
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has been made
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available we can close this
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drawing start a new drawing
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start by saving
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it and now we're ready to reference or
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data reference this EG surface that we
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just made available so under data
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shortcuts we'll go to surfaces EG
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rightclick create
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reference choose the style and we can
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change the name if we'd like
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to and there's the EG surface reference
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to in now when we look up in the
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prospector area the drawing area and we
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go to surfaces you'll see EG but it has
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a little slightly different symbol
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little arrow pointing up into the right
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and that's to alert us to the fact that
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this is a data referenced surface and if
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we expand it you'll see there's no
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definition okay and that's because the
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definition of this EG surface is
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actually in another drawing I want to
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point out a mistake that's commonly made
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let's say I brought in the wrong surface
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maybe it's from the wrong project or
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maybe it's just the wrong surface so I
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want to get rid of it I don't want to
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right click under data shortcuts here
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and say remove removing the surface from
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the data shortcuts gets rid of the XML
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file inside of that underscore data
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shortcuts folder I showed you we want to
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get rid of it from the drawing so up
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here under surfaces EG we want to get
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rid of that so I could either right
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click here and say delete or I could
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just select it on the screen and hit
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delete and that'll take it out of this
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drawing so I'll bring it back in one
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more time
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and
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save now these two drawings design. DWG
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and my existing ground drawing are both
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Associated to this project which means
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that when I reopen these drawings in two
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months or a year it should automatically
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set my project folder to p and the
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project but I do need to be aware that
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if I go to work on another
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project start a new project or a project
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that hasn't used data shortcuts it may
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not be set to the correct project down
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here so you always want to check this
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data shortcut
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path and make sure that you're in the
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project you expect to be in before
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creating data shortcuts or data
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references now in the next tutorial
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we'll take our existing ground surface
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and begin to create alignments and
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profiles
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