WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Welcome back. So now that we've talked about data shortcuts and external references and the difference between the two, what we're going to go ahead and do in this video is set up our drawing to allow us to create some data shortcuts. 00:12.000 --> 00:21.000 The thing to understand about data shortcuts is that the settings for data shortcuts is similar to the settings for our survey database. 00:21.000 --> 00:41.000 So the data shortcuts information is going to be a database that's shared across all of civil 3D. So when we create our data shortcuts folders, civil 3D is going to be able to reference those across all the drawings inside of civil 3D rather than just the one specific file that we're working it. 00:41.000 --> 00:51.000 So what we're going to go ahead and do is navigate over to the tool space Prospector tab. We're going to go to data shortcuts. We're going to right click on data shortcuts and we're going to go ahead and set our working folder. 00:51.000 --> 01:02.000 So inside of our working folder, we're going to go ahead and make sure that we're selecting the working folder for this class. So I'm going to go ahead and go to mine, which is a desktop civ 203 working folder. 01:02.000 --> 01:12.000 I'm going to go ahead and select that folder and then civil 3 is going to set my working folder as my civ 203 working folder. 01:12.000 --> 01:21.000 So once we've set the working folder, we can go ahead and right click and we're going to go ahead and create a new data shortcut project folder. 01:21.000 --> 01:40.000 We can't set a data project a data shortcut project folder because we don't have one yet. So we now have to create a new one. So if you already had data shortcut project folders and you wanted to switch between them, all you have to do is go ahead and set your working folder and then set a new or set your data shortcut project folder. 01:40.000 --> 01:50.000 We don't have one. We're going to go ahead and create a new one. So when we select new, we're going to go ahead and select our working folder, which we've set here and it's great out. So we can't change it. 01:50.000 --> 02:12.000 Then we're going to choose the name of our data shortcut folder. I'm going to call this civ 203 data. And then I am going to type in data shortcuts for civ 203 course. 02:12.000 --> 02:24.000 Then from here, you have the option for using project templates. So if you have a template file that you want to use when you're bringing this data in, you can do that. I'm going to go ahead and leave it as not checked and I'm going to click OK. 02:24.000 --> 02:41.000 So now what you can see in here is that data shortcuts now has a file path here. So we have minus set to see user trainer desktop civ 203 working folder civ 203 data, which is in fact our data shortcut project folder. 02:41.000 --> 02:53.000 So from here, now we have the ability to create data shortcuts. Now you have to have data to create a data shortcut. So in order to do that, we're going to have to open up a new file. 02:53.000 --> 03:05.000 So I'm going to go to my start tab. I'm going to select open. I'm going to go to my working folder and I'm going to go ahead and select this civ 203 data.dwg that you have from your course file download. 03:05.000 --> 03:25.000 So I'm going to go ahead and click open for that drawing file and this drawing file should look pretty familiar. It's almost identical to what we created in the 202 course. So from here, we have information like corridors, alignments, surfaces, profiles. 03:25.000 --> 03:31.000 Well, we haven't created any pipe networks or pressure networks. So we're not going to be able to create any data shortcuts for those. 03:31.000 --> 03:42.000 But we can create data shortcuts for any of the other objects. So in order to do that, what we have to do is select data shortcuts right click and select create data shortcuts. 03:42.000 --> 03:52.000 So when you select create data shortcuts, what civil 3D is going to do is it's going to look to all of the objects that you have inside of this drawing that can be created as a data shortcut. 03:52.000 --> 04:00.000 So we have our surfaces. I'm going to go ahead and check surfaces box and add in all of the surfaces from this drawing as data shortcuts. 04:00.000 --> 04:12.000 Moving on from there, I'm going to go ahead and choose my dev branch alignment as a data shortcut. I'm also going to go ahead and choose my dev main as an alignment data reference. 04:12.000 --> 04:20.000 Now moving on from there, I have all of these other alignments that were created when I was creating my corridors. I don't want to add these in. 04:20.000 --> 04:33.000 What you will notice is that with the alignments, the profiles that are associated with those alignments automatically get added in. I could uncheck them if I wanted to. I don't want to do that. So I'm going to go ahead and leave them. 04:33.000 --> 04:41.000 And then I'm going to go ahead and navigate down here. You can continue to see all of the alignments that are available. And then we have the corridors. 04:41.000 --> 04:50.000 Because I know that the surfaces that I have up here are built from the corridors that are down here. I don't need to bring these corridors in. 04:50.000 --> 05:00.000 They've been designed, but the main purpose in my design of these corridors was to get a surface. So I'm going to go ahead and not check them off. 05:00.000 --> 05:11.000 If we decided later that we wanted to add them in, we could always come back to this drawing right click select create data shortcuts add these in. But for now, I'm not going to check them off. I'm going to go ahead and click OK. 05:11.000 --> 05:22.000 And what we have here now is that you'll notice that we have expanded surfaces and alignments and center line alignments with dev branch and dev main. 05:22.000 --> 05:29.000 So we've created these data shortcuts. I'm going to go ahead and close this data folder. It's going to ask me to save. 05:29.000 --> 05:36.000 I'm not sure I want to make sure I'm saving this. So I'm going to go ahead click yes, even though we didn't make any changes to this exact drawing. 05:36.000 --> 06:01.000 Now we have our Civ 203 grad folder open and you'll notice that I have all of the data references in here now available for me to use because we created that folder where all those data references are going to get saved to and civil 3D is using that working folder across all drawings inside civil 3D rather than just the one specific drawing that we were in. 06:01.000 --> 06:10.000 So from here, I'm going to go ahead and save this drawing and I'll meet you in the next video where we'll bring these data references into the drawing that we're working inside of.