The Big Picture of Data Management Practices

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The data management in any infrastructure project is very important because infrastructure projects can be very large and complex with a lot of data.

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So, data management is very important to keep drawing performance, to have dynamic design,

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to also allow collaboration between your team members, and to have only one single source of design.

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In Civil 3D, there are three different ways to manage the data.

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The first one is what we call the external references, XREFs.

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These XREFs already exist in AutoCAD, where you can attach, obviously, AutoCAD DWG format, images such as PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and also point cloud.

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The second one, which will be the most important part for this presentation, are the data shortcut references for the Civil 3D objects.

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And the last one, the tools made for the data management, such as Vault and BIM 360.

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In any infrastructure project, it's always better before modeling to know what we want to achieve and what data we will need to use.

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If you see my diagram, the first are the objects or the input data, where such surfaces, alignments, corridors, pipe network, etcetera.

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We can use these objects, then, to create all design all 3D models.

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And then, with our 3D models, we will do deliver 3D models or 2D plans, such as land views, cross-sections, all qualities.

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And to organize all of this, obviously, we need to have data saturation.

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Solutions, such as Vault and BIM 360, can give you a lot of benefits.

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Here in the list, you can see we have the logical naming and phasing.

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You have also a security backup to have access to all the versions of your models.

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And you can also comply with the standards of BIM.

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For the AutoCAD entities, we have the lines, polylines, circles, blocks, etcetera.

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And for the Civil 3D objects, they are intelligent and dynamic in their interaction to each other,

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such as the surfaces, alignments, corridors, pipe networks.