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Data shortcuts are so critical to performance but also functionality/production within Civil 3D. However they haven’t even got their own bloody window!

Here are a number of amazing features you could add to data shortcuts that will blow everyone’s mind.

1. Move the data shortcuts section out of that crappy little section in the prospector tab. Maybe give them their own tab?

Lets take a look below at what a better Data shortcuts system would look like

2. Allow Corridor Linework etc., sites/Grading Groups, and Cogo Points Groups to be Data Shortcuts. We are all sick of copying this stuff manually into production drawings. The modelling environment always looks different to the finished drawing production environment!

3. Allow Filter. Search Functionality

4. Provide Find/Replace Naming functionality that actually renames the objects in the drawings they have been referenced into. Or fixes the paths similar to “data shortcuts manager”

5. Display the Current working folder as well as a drop down to access previously used working folders

6. Data shortcuts tab

7. Project Folders displayed as well as sub folders for objects that can be created

8. Set default styles for objects so that when they are referenced you don’t have to select it.

9. Allow objects to be exported to other formts from the data shortcuts window. Maybe Sent to IMX, LandXML etc.

10. If you spend more time looking at this there is even more you can add. Hopefully this gets the creative juices flowing though.

Ps. Why your at it. Can you change this set working folder box so we can actually paste a path into it

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