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A Civil 3D 2026.2.3 Update for the Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 release was released this week. The update probably includes a bit more than the mentioned fixes for the simultaneous release of Vehicle Tracking 2026.1.1 Update and a .Net10 upgrade to our favorite Civil 3D maintenance tool – the Civil 3D Batch Save Utility. What do we know?

Be aware.…

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Many people in Civil 3D Land are mainly committed to Feature Line based grading design in Autodesk Civil 3D. There’s nothing wrong with that. Civil 3D 2027 even includes a new Tech Preview Daylight Feature Line tool that functions outside of the context of a Civil 3D Grading Group.

The last couple of Civil 3D releases and updates also include…

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Long ago and far, far away, I was once the 1^St Cook in a not so famous restaurant in Miami, FL. This steak and seafood house’s claim to fame was a truly gigantic, salt water aquarium that featured the first living coral reef to ever succeed in captivity. This was a big deal at the time.

The one-of-a-kind aquarium separated the nightly hot spot and place to be seen bar from the…

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Do we ask the right questions about Autodesk Civil 3D and how we use it?
By definition…Probably not.

We human beings tend to not ask questions about what we believe we already know how to do. We rely too much on habit. We could call this the human autopilot. The autopilot works 95%+ of the time. Our brains spend a good deal of invisible time behind…

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Autodesk Civil 3D started out to establish a change in the civil engineering paradigm. First get the model and, most importantly, the data behind that model right. For practical purposes that word right means - suitable. From that suitable model we may automatically publish what we need to deliver in many forms.

It…

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