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See the working folder and data shortcut project paths

See the working folder and data shortcut project paths - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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See the working folder and data shortcut project paths

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- [Instructor] So it's Civil 3D is the one that creates the Data Shortcut files, these pointers. It needs some way to manage and control where to store these pointers or data shortcut files. As well as to know which shortcuts to show you so you don't see all of the projects for your entire company. So it does this through a data shortcut project. The data shortcut project really is just a folder or directory that contains a special sub folder underneath. The special sub folder underneath is underscore shortcuts and it contains of course, special folders under that as well. All of this is stored by controlling the location of the working folder. So think of it this way, your working folder is kind of your server location. Your X drive, your P drive, something of that sort. The data shortcut project is your actual project for your design. And then you have sub folder storing all of these data shortcut files that Civil 3D has created. So how do you set your working folder? Well, we're in…

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