Have you ever hopped up and down on solid ground that bounces like jello? I recently had the chance. All kinds of fun. This wiggly weirdness occurred at the end of my own street earlier this month. It so happens that my neighborhood is part of an on-going city curb and gutter, sidewalk, and repave project.
Miracle of miracles. For once in 30 years our California gas taxes are at work in…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 24, 2025
Tags geotechnical, GeoDin, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Civil 2D 2026, surface, points, video
The new Framework for Civil 3D products for Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 officially hit the street this week. The latest and greatest Jump Kit Release 8 product for Civil 3D 2026 includes huge libraries of well-crafted, integrated, and system managed Civil 3D content resources.
If we want Autodesk Civil 3D to work better, the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 17, 2025
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2026, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Upgrade, Update, Drainage Analysis, Implementation
What is the Templates Only for Autodesk Civil 3D product? We get this question a lot for understandable reasons. We claim that Templates Only is a trial product. Templates Only is the quick and easy way to get a taste of our most popular product - Jump Kit is the Framework for Civil 3D.
Folks want to know, “Does…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 10, 2025
Tags Templates Only, Jump Kit, design, survey, Civil 2D 2026, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Civil 3D 2023, template
Autodesk released Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 and the other related Autodesk Infrastructure products officially on April Fools Day 2025. Technically, the actual product downloads and/or deployment builds from the Autodesk Access app and the Autodesk Subscription site were not generally available until the second of April for most US…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 03, 2025
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2026, AutoCAD 2026, Map 3D 2026, Upgrade, Update, video
Late last week Autodesk released the Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.2.1 Update and the Autodesk Civil 3D 2024.4.3 Updates. These recent Civil 3D Updates synch up the Civil 3D Object Models in these older release with the upcoming release of Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.
These older release updates are all about Backwards Compatibility…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 31, 2025
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Update, Upgrade