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WINDOWS ON THE MODEL

In addition, right-clicking on the individual object in the list view offers two more commands

unique to Civil 3D: Zoom To Object and Pan To Object. By using these commands, you can find any

parcel, point, cross section, or other Civil 3D object in your drawing nearly instantly.

Many longtime users of AutoCAD have resisted right-clicking menus for their daily tasks. In

other AutoCAD products that might be possible, but in Civil 3D you’ll miss half the commands! We

will focus on the specific options and commands for each object type when we talk about the objects

in particular.

Projects

The Projects branch of Prospector is the starting point for real team collaboration. This branch

allows you to sign in and out of Vault, review what projects are available, manage the projects you

sort through for information, check out drawings for editing, and review the status of drawings, as

well as that of individual project-based objects. We’ll spend much more time talking about the

Project branch in Chapters 19 and 20.

Drawing Templates

The Drawing Templates branch is added more as a convenience than anything else. Creating new

drawings can still be done via the standard File 

New option, but by using the Drawing Templates

branch, you can do the same thing without ever leaving Prospector. The Drawing Templates branch

searches the file path specified in your AutoCAD Options dialog and displays a list of all the

.dwt

files it finds. You can customize this path to point to a server or other folder, but by default it’s a

local user settings path. Right-clicking on the name of a template presents you with the options

shown in Figure 1.4.

Figure 1.4

Creating a new draw-

ing from within the

Drawing Templates

branch of Prospector

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