Data Shortcuts

How you work with data shortcuts in AutoCAD Civil 3D depends on whether you are the creator of the shortcut or the shortcut has already been created by another user.

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Data shortcuts contain references to source drawings. The best practice is to keep those source drawings in the same data shortcuts folder that you created in Prepare Your Local Workspace. This will guarantee that the source drawings will be synchronized to your local workspace with the data shortcuts. To help identify data shortcut files after they are imported to the vault, we recommend that a Meridian System Administrator create a dedicated document type for them that will be assigned to files with the .XML file extension as described in Assign Document Types To Imported Documents.