These days people anywhere can bet on nearly anything. Is that an interesting take on statistical analytics and/or just a sign of the times? The legal Internet prediction markets allow us all to test our prophetic capabilities in some new and entertaining ways. What fun.
Speaking of odd - here’s one we probably cannot check…
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Tench Tilghman
May 21, 2026
Tags customization, implementation, templates, development, maintenance, CAD Standards, Upgrade, Update
Our civil engineering and survey projects in Autodesk Civil 3D and other Autodesk apps generally tend to grow larger and more complex with time. Is it just me? Our bottom line requires that we spend some time and attention to regular drawing maintenance as our project timelines grow longer and the project complexity increases.
Hopefully, we learn, practice,…
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Tench Tilghman
May 14, 2026
Tags Drawing Cleanup, project maintenance, Data Shortcut Manager, ViewFrame, ViewFrame Group, Upgrade, Update, Civil 3D 2027, Sheet Set
Each February Autodesk begins a new corporate fiscal year. “Out with the old and in with the new.” By the end of the month, Autodesk begins to release those important and vital updates to the supportive software for their core software and cloud applications.
Visions of maidens that dance around the maypole suddenly come to mind. Why is that? Autodesk was born in the Northern…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 06, 2025
Tags Access, Upgrade, Update, Subscription, Civil 3D 2026, AutoCAD 2026, maintenance
In Civil 3D, the Reference Template Tool in Civil 3D provides us an improved approach to the consistent delivery of effective, production Civil 3D Templates and Known Good Style collection resources. The Reference Template (TREF) Tool is one excellent reason we employ the term target to help differentiate the various…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 26, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, implementation, TREF
The Civil 3D Template Classic Target methods are the common Civil 3D Template construction and maintenance methodologies used to produce a target of collected Civil 3D Style resources. Many people consider a Civil 3D Template to be their Known Good and perhaps even their Style Management end goal.…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 19, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, settings