It is an eternal struggle to learn how to be thankful and grateful in a world that all too often fails to meet our expectations. Good things happen to some. Bad things happen to others. Both sets of events may happen to us.
How do we manage to make sense of that nonsense?
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It is certainly human to expect that things could or should…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 26, 2025
Tags WATT
DWF-based publication is a powerful and useful publishing methodology in Autodesk Civil 3D. DWF publication is a core AutoCAD publishing functionality. DWF-based publication functions well in Civil 3D projects managed on local machines, networks, the Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Autodesk Docs environments.
Civil 3D users and organizations can thankfully…
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We proclaim that the Framework for Civil 3D is a Managed System for Autodesk Civil 3D. We famously like to tell folks, “It’s in there.” Indeed, there are many powerful and useful capabilities included inside our Framework products for Autodesk Civil 3D.
For obvious reasons, product makers tend to talk about our latest and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 13, 2025
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, As Built, TREF, Reference Template, NCS 6.0, utility, layer state, Civil 3D 2026
We grind away at some nuanced and significant improvements to the Framework for Civil 3D Standards documentation that we supply with both our Templates Only and Jump Kit products. We promise customers will see this work real soon now. We await the next Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.2 Update that is due out any day now. Hoorah.
Historically,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 06, 2025
Tags CAD Standards, Update, customization, Multiple Baseline Corridors, video, Standards, Implementation, DREF, Civil 3D 2026
If we think about it our investments in Civil 3D development and customization generate a bit of a paradox. Out here in Civil 3D Land there’s an intriguing question about Autodesk Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and Civil 3D resource development. Is the customization of Civil 3D worth it?
The Is it Worth it…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 30, 2025
Tags customization, implementation, project, Civil 3D, CAD Standards, development, Jump Kit, Templates Only