Share Data

Share Data

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Menu:    CSD General > Data Sharing > Share Data
Ribbon: General Tab > Data Sharing Panel > Share Data

Introduction

The Share Data command forms part of the Data Sharing tools inside Civil Site Design.

Using the Data Sharing tools, road type data (eg: road, kerb return, cul-de-sac strings and sections) and pipe network data can be shared between drawings.

The general process is as follows:

Share Data: this allows pushing of Roads and Pipes data from the current drawing into a user set location (either on the computer or at a network location) - this becomes a Share Folder

Read Data Share: this allows Roads and/or Pipes data to be read from a Share Folder location - users pick the Share Folder and the drawing/s in the Share Folder from which to reference data

Shared data cannot be edited except in the original drawing.  Viewing and plotting of data is allowed via the receiving drawing.  Surface creation of Road type objects is not supported for referenced data - these should be created in the source drawing.

Alignments and Surfaces are not transferred in the Data Share process - users must ensure that both drawings have matching alignment and surface data, prior to data sharing.

The shared data can be updated at any time by running the Share Data command on the source drawing and the Read Data Share command on the receiving drawing.

Details

If a data share has already been made from a drawing, when the Share Data command is run the user will be prompted to update the current data share.

If no data share has been established for the drawing, then the user is required to browse to and select a Data Share location. The following form is displayed:

Folder list

List of folders that can be used for the Data Share

Make New Folder

Create a new Folder

OK

Copy the current drawing data to this folder, for reading into another drawing.

Cancel

Exit the form without sharing data to a folder or updating a data share.

Note: Once a folder is selected, the software will create sub-folders to store the drawing data (Road type objects and Pipe Networks).


Folder list	List of folders that can be used for the Data Share
Make New Folder	Create a new Folder
OK	Copy the current drawing data to this folder, for reading into another drawing.
Cancel	Exit the form without sharing data to a folder or updating a data share.