The Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit product is notable and perhaps even famous for the product’s native support for multiple variations of the National CAD Standard (NCS) Layer Standards. These include the current NCS 6.0 and NCS 6.0 AIA variants. These common NCS Layer Standard variants are variously required for GSA, DOD, US Army Corps, and other project submittals.
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Tench Tilghman
Jun 04, 2026
Tags NCS 6.0, Layer Standards, Layer State Manager, Layer Manager, script, scriptcall, Description Key, Object Settings, video
The Point is one of the most overused words in Autodesk Civil 3D. Are we talking about COGO points? Survey Points? Point Groups? Point data in a Surface? Points of Intersection in our horizontal, vertical, and cross section control?
This list of different and/or separate meanings for the word Point seems to be a never-ending story.
The mastery of…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 12, 2026
Tags Description Key, Description Key Set, point, Point Style, Point Label Style, expressions, Expression Set, Property Set, point group, figure, survey db
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
We hope everyone out there in Civil 3D Land had a great relaxing Labor Day weekend. Did your fav college football team pull off an upset? Mine did in the last minute of their game. Hoorah. Frankly, most of the long holiday weekend we were laboring in that favorite tradition of small business in America. You know the drill.
Work smarter and harder than the other guys.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 06, 2023
Tags Civil 3D 2024, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Subscription
Autodesk officially released Autodesk Revit 2024 and the related family of 2024 Building Solution Products this week.
The new Autodesk Revit 2024 notably includes a new Dark theme, lots of new graphics and printing performance improvements, and Toposolids that may apply to your current project and workflows.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 04, 2023
Tags AEC Collection, Revit, 2024, Upgrade, Subscription, video