To use Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D for collaborating on your Civil 3D projects in Autodesk Docs, you'll need to have:
A subscription to Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro includes an entitlement to Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D, which lets you create and manage data shortcut projects in Autodesk Docs. If you don't need to create data shortcuts or data shortcut references, but you need to do other work in the project drawings, you'll need a subscription to Autodesk Docs. For more information, see About Working With Data Shortcut Projects in Autodesk Docs.
For more information, see the following procedure and Assign Products and Services to Users in Classic User Management in the Account Management Help. Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro is available only in the Classic View of Autodesk Account.
When Desktop Connector is installed, the connected drive for Autodesk Docs is indicated by a icon in Windows Explorer. An account within the connected drive, and the projects within the account, are indicated by a hub icon .
To get started using Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D, you'll need to perform some setup tasks.
The following table gives an overview of the applications to use for setting up accounts and projects, and for working with data shortcut projects and documents.
Task | Where | Who |
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Provide access to Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro and Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D. | Autodesk Account | Contract managers and software coordinators (using the Classic View in Autodesk Account) |
Set up and manage an Autodesk Docs account, including adding members to the account. | Autodesk Docs | Autodesk Docs administrator |
Create and manage an Autodesk Docs project, including inviting project members and setting folder permissions. | Autodesk Docs | Autodesk Docs administrator |
Create a data shortcut project in an existing Autodesk Docs project. | Civil 3D | Civil 3D users who subscribe to Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro and have access to Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D |
Create data shortcuts and data shortcut references in a project that is stored in Autodesk Docs. | Civil 3D | Civil 3D users who subscribe to Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro and have access to Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D |
Create new drawings and save them in an Autodesk Docs project. Open and edit drawings that contain data shortcut references, including synchronizing data shortcut references (but not modifying them or creating new data shortcuts or data shortcut references). |
Civil 3D | Civil 3D users who subscribe to Autodesk Docs |
Upload existing drawings to Autodesk Docs using the connected drive. | Windows Explorer | Civil 3D users who subscribe to Autodesk Docs |
Use the Autodesk Docs web interface to review drawings and add markup. | Autodesk Docs | Project team members who subscribe to Autodesk Docs Docs |