Autodesk Docs is the storage location for your
Collaboration for Civil 3D projects.
Accounts
- It is recommended that you understand
Autodesk Docs
user access levels,
roles,
folder permissions, and
project organization.
- When
Autodesk Docs account administrators invite members to an account, they can assign the new member to a company and a role. The company and the role can be used to streamline the process of providing access to projects and project folders. The account administrator can also import member names from a spreadsheet. For more information, see
Manage Account Members in the
Autodesk Docs Help.
- Autodesk Docs project members don't automatically get access to the project folders. In addition to inviting members to a project, the project administrator needs to give permissions to the team members to access the project folders. For more information, see
How Do I Access Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D?.
- For tracking and communication purposes, it is recommended that user accounts in
Autodesk Docs use the users' real names.
Uploading, saving, and opening documents
- When you upload files to
Autodesk Docs, avoid attempting to upload unsupported files. For more information, see
Supported Files.
- The specified path and file name for uploaded files must be less than 244 characters. If this length is exceeded, the files might not upload successfully and you could experience unexpected behavior. For more information, see
Docs - Long Path.
- The document version starts at V1 and is increased by 1 each time a file is saved. You can view the versions in the
Autodesk Docs Viewer. For more information, see
To Use
Autodesk Docs Viewing and Markup Features for your Civil 3D Drawings.
- You might not be able to open
Autodesk Docs documents in the following cases:
- You are working offline (either using the Desktop Connector
offline mode, or you are not connected to the internet) and you attempt to open a document that has a status of Online.
- Your
Autodesk Docs permissions have changed.
- You have not signed in to Autodesk Account.
- Only documents that you can open directly in
Civil 3D (DWG, DWT, DWS, and DXF) are displayed on the
Autodesk Docs page and the Recent page of the Start tab.
Data storage environment
-
A data shortcut project and its associated drawings need to be stored in the same data storage environment. For example, when you are working in a data shortcut project that is stored in
Autodesk Docs, the drawing files must also be stored in
Autodesk Docs.
- If the current drawing is in
Autodesk Docs, the working folder needs to be in
Autodesk Docs.
- It is not supported to associate a local drawing with an
Autodesk Docs project, or to associate an
Autodesk Docs project with a local drawing.
- Referenced files (xrefs, data shortcuts, and others) need to be in the same data storage environment as the host drawings. If the referenced files do not share the same data storage environment as the host drawing, you will be prompted to migrate the references.
- Messages will be displayed to alert you if you attempt to use different data storage environments within the same project.
- Store project data and content in
Autodesk Docs. For example, store fonts, materials, drawing templates, reference templates, standards, and so on, in
Autodesk Docs.
- To prevent files from being uploaded to a related data folder when files are uploaded to
Autodesk Docs, it is recommended to avoid saving or uploading drawings to
Autodesk Docs that contain references to local files. Store files in
Autodesk Docs that you plan on making references to, and when referencing data in a drawing or in a template, make the reference to file located in
Autodesk Docs rather than to a file on a local drive or a local server.