Happy February! What do you know? It’s new fiscal year for Autodesk this month. This means those powers start to roll out upgrades and updates to some code in preparation for the annual Autodesk Rite of Spring. Autodesk kicks things off this year with a pretty significant update to the Autodesk Desktop Connector 17.1.0.16 (ADC).
Autodesk Civil 3D users should…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 05, 2026
Tags ADC, Desktop Connector, Project Management, project template, Reference Explorer, CAD Standards
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
Many, if not most, of our Civil 3D Projects will involve multiple Reference Replacement processes and workflows. Many of us in Civil 3D Land employ the classic AutoCAD-based External References (XREF) basemap strategy in our plan set publications. We publish a stack of separate drawings to better separate and effectively manage the content of the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 22, 2025
Tags XREF, DREF, IREF, Project Management, Data Shortcut Manager, Data Shortcut Editor, Reference Explorer, video, DWF
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
Sometimes a broken Reference problem in Civil 3D will stare us right in the face and we still miss and/or cannot find and/or see the reason why. Been there. Done that. Got my T shirt. How can this be? Out here in Civil 3D Land every day we use this vital and basic file Reference stuff like our lives depend on it.
If you tell me that the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 10, 2024
Tags DWF, XREF, IREF, TREF, project template, Data Shortcut Manager, Reference Explorer, Project Management