From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D: Data Management Workflows
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Create data references - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D: Data Management Workflows
Create data references
- [Instructor] In our last video we created some data shortcuts. Now let's consume or reference that data into this drawing by opening up a drawing and then assigning it to the project and then creating references. Let's open up our exercise for this video. The exercise file is in our Desktop, Exercise Files, chapter two, and we're gonna choose the 02_02_ReferencingData file. When I open up this drawing you'll notice that the drawing is actually blank and that's okay. We're about to add information into the drawing. I'm going to go ahead and using my tool space on the Prospector tab go ahead and navigate down to the bottom of the Prospector tab, right-click, and I wanna associate this project to the current drawing. Notice that it's still set to the Data Shortcut project that we were at in the last video. But that's only because that was the last Data Shortcut project opened. That doesn't mean it's associated to the drawing. As we see it's not in brackets here. So let's go ahead and…
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