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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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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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This week the prize for Civil 3D users from Autodesk is the release of the new Autodesk DWG Migration for Docs (DMDA) tool. Maybe the DMDA is a utility? This Civil 3D and AutoCAD whatsit App has been in the works for way too long. Thanks Autodesk. It finally arrived.

The new DMDA will: test and validate all the wonky file and numerous, and notoriously, obscure…

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On the face of it the nuts and bolts of Export from AutoCAD Civil 3D isn’t all that trilling. If you do this all the time, you’ve got it down pat. If you only do it occasionally, it is easy to forget and overlook some of the nuance. If you’re starting out, Civil 3D Export can seem like a dark art. Ok. Lots of Civil 3D things may seem that way in the beginning.

Deep down…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  export, dwg, DGN, plan production tool, iPOD, publish on demand

If you’re a sports fan, you got to love this last weekend. Both the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals finished on back to back nights. These championship events clarify the term performance under pressure. When we talk about applied personal and team skill in those contexts, push comes to shove takes on a whole new meaning. This brings me to the question of…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  iPOD, publish on demand, video, training, plotting, pdf, DGN, dwg