Many people out here in Civil 3D Land wait for the first Autodesk Civil 3D update to migrate to a new Civil 3D release. Maybe there is a reason for that. Fancy that? The Autodesk Civil 3D 2027.1 Update hit the street this week. 2027.1 Update packs a bunch.
As is the norm for many recent Civil 3D release cycles, there are probably more important and/or significant…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 06, 2026
Tags Civil 3D 2027, XREF, IREF, DREF, Upgrade, Update, Data Shortcut Manager, Data Shortcut Editor, Fix Broken References
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
Let’s proactively start off a new year with a chat about some practical and mission critical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.
Around here we build, manage, and maintain an enormous and deep set of Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Style resources for multiple releases of Civil 3D.
Like everyone else we had to learn the hard way to systematically…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 15, 2026
Tags template, sheet set template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Management, project template, development
We proclaim that the Framework for Civil 3D is a Managed System for Autodesk Civil 3D. We famously like to tell folks, “It’s in there.” Indeed, there are many powerful and useful capabilities included inside our Framework products for Autodesk Civil 3D.
For obvious reasons, product makers tend to talk about our latest and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 13, 2025
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, As Built, TREF, Reference Template, NCS 6.0, utility, layer state, Civil 3D 2026
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