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What's New in Civil 3D
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- Getting Started
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- Points
  - Understanding Points
  - Point Settings
  - Custom Properties with Points
  - Point Styles
  - Point Labels and Tables
  - Managing Points
  - Creating Points
  - Editing Points
  - Importing and Exporting Points
  - Using External Data References
  - Point Utilities
  - Point Groups
  - Description Keys
  - Description Key Sets
  - Creating and Editing Description Keys
  - Point Command Reference
- Lines and Curves
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- Alignments
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- Moving Land Desktop Data into Civil 3D
- Material and Quantity Analysis
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- Pressure Networks
- Corridor Modeling
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Using External Data References

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About External Data References
Autodesk Civil 3D creates and maintains a point database file that contains all the point information in the project.
To Create an External Point Database With Microsoft Access
To Create an External Data Reference

Parent topic: Points

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