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What are data shortcuts?

What are data shortcuts? - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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What are data shortcuts?

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- [Instructor] So far, all the work we've done in Civil 3D has been stored and coming from one drawing. And that's really a powerful feature with Civil 3D, being able to store the information in a drawing, and having that information in a drawing. It makes it much easier to work with. Yet at the same time, these drawings can get out of hand. And it doesn't allow for a team effort to accomplish a project. But to just talk a little bit about getting out of hand, the very first project I worked on with Civil 3D was way back when it was in a preview mode. And because the project was small, it was less than an acre, I thought, well let's give it a try. Let's go ahead and do a production project in it, even though of course, it was just in preview mode. That project again was just under an acre, we were adding just a little office and parking on an industrial warehouse scenario. It had a little bit of drainage we were tying into. That was it. Because everything had to be within that one…

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