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Autodesk University 2026 begins today Sept 15, 2026. This year AU returns to the Las Vegas strip and the Venetian event center. I cannot be sure. For some strange reason that reminds me of that big hair ‘80s tune by the Bangels - Walks like an Egyptian. Oh…Ohhh.

I know. My dogs be barkin’. Eheh.

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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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For good reasons Autodesk Civil 3D doesn’t police whether we pile a bunch of Civil 3D Features into a single drawing and then design, QAQC, and publish that way. Civil 3D doesn’t care. We manage this Civil 3D reality or not. In the real world, most of us are unlikely to work on a project that requires only a single drawing. We do not work in a world where civil engineering and survey…

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Some folks will unquestionably wait for an upcoming Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.1 Update before they upgrade to the 2025 release of Civil 3D. That’s a historical habit thing, do’n ja know. Before and during the recent July 4^th week, Autodesk released the Civil 3D 2025.02 Update, a couple of significant Civil 3D Tools, and those sometimes vital…

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Out here in Civil 3D Land we do civil engineering and survey work. That means that grading and Civil 3D Surfaces play a significant part of our daily workflows. Thankfully, Autodesk has been working hard on improved Civil 3D performance. How we structure our Civil 3D Projects and how we perform some basic Civil 3D Project maintenance work can matter.

One…

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