In early December Autodesk released the latest Civil 3D 2026.2 Update. This week Autodesk followed up with Christmas presents for all the rest of us out here in Civil 3D Land.
To maintain the all-important Backwards Compatibility feature we learned to love and depend on in Civil 3D, this week Autodesk released Updates for Civil 3D…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 18, 2025
Tags Update, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2026
People do ask – “What is a Civil 3D Project Sandbox?”
A Civil 3D Project Sandbox is a Civil 3D Project dataset that we employ to build, learn, and test our production workflows in Civil 3D.The fact of the matter is that we all need better, safe places for productive play in Civil 3D. There are mission critical personal and corporate reasons why we need better…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 27, 2025
Tags Civil 2D 2026, Civil 2D 2025, project template, Training, Upgrade, Update, video
Last week Autodesk released the Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.2.2 Update and the Autodesk Civil 3D 2024.4.4 Update. Aside from important Data Shortcut and other fixes, these recent Civil 3D Updates synch up the Civil 3D Object Models in these older releases with the upcoming release of an Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.1 Update.
In addition to the significant…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 26, 2025
Tags Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Update, Upgrade, Jump Kit, Templates Only
The Autodesk marketing people say that everyone wants an Autodesk Civil 3D built their way. This is wishful thinking.
Professional civil engineers and surveyors really want their expensive Autodesk code to work and produce work that is acceptable to them and those that they deliver their work too. If that’s the goal of your Autodesk Civil 3D customizations or improvements,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 08, 2025
Tags customization, implementation, Civil 2D 2026, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, templates, styles, symbols, layer standard, layers, blocks
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