Most of us out here in Civil 3D Land wait patiently for the Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.2 Update to arrive. As the Eagles song Desperado says, “you’ve got your reasons.”
We all hope for better and more stable Civil 3D code to work with.
Are you among the civil engineers and surveyors averse to zeros in…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 04, 2025
Tags Update, Upgrade, Desktop Connector, DWG Migration, Autodesk Docs, ACC, video, Civil 3D 2026
How many Civil 3D Project drawings can we balance on the head of a pin? How do we migrate our local Civil 3D project into the Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)? Why would we want to do that? Some questions are important. Others are not.
At AU 2025 Autodesk showed off a new and improved Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) in more than a few…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 23, 2025
Tags DWG Migration, DIM, Autodesk Docs, BIM Collaborate, Reference Explorer
Autodesk showed off a new and improved Autodesk Desktop Connector (ADC) in many public Autodesk University 2025 sessions. In early October, Autodesk finally released that higher performance version of the latest and greatest ADC to the masses. Hoorah.
There's more. In case you missed it - Autodesk Docs users may now include AutoCAD and Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 09, 2025
Tags Desktop Connector, ADC, Autodesk Docs, Forma Data Management, FDM, Project Management, CAD Standards, Update
Autodesk celebrated Halloween and Election Week in the United States with the release of their latest version of the Autodesk Desktop Connector (ADC). The Autodesk official release date is listed as Oct 30, 2024. Actual downloads of the new release from the public download page were not available until the early days of the first week of November for reasons unknown.
No…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 07, 2024
Tags Desktop Connector, ADC, Project Management, Reference Explorer, project, project template, Autodesk Docs
Autodesk released the Autodesk Content Catalog Extensions for Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D in late August without much marketing fanfare or hoopla. The Content Catalog Extensions help us manage and maintain our drawing model content and standards for the supported software in the Autodesk Docs and Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 04, 2024
Tags Civil 3D, Content Catalog, CAD Standards, Autodesk Docs, video, Revit, AutoCAD