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
This is one of the memorable and most absurd comedy scenes in movie making history. In Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles Cleavon Little , the newly appointed sheriff, takes himself hostage by pointing his own gun at his own head. The old woman cries,
“Somebody save the poor boy!”
To this day woke Google…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 16, 2025
Tags WATT
Autodesk showed off a new and improved Autodesk Desktop Connector (ADC) in many public Autodesk University 2025 sessions. In early October, Autodesk finally released that higher performance version of the latest and greatest ADC to the masses. Hoorah.
There's more. In case you missed it - Autodesk Docs users may now include AutoCAD and Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 09, 2025
Tags Desktop Connector, ADC, Autodesk Docs, Forma Data Management, FDM, Project Management, CAD Standards, Update
The art of production and publication Civil 3D Standards is all about the construction and maintenance of managed, known, and current States. There is no singularity in Civil 3D Standards. However, the search for such standards can often feel like a time-sucking, black hole. After all, we are talking about sets of collections of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 02, 2025
Tags layers, layer state, Layer Manager, CAD Standards, implementation, customization, video, Layer State Manager
There are three distinct key process concepts in model-based design. Our iteratively built model and the managed data behind on which that model depends. These allow us to produce the published results we require in our deliverables. We must never skip over the fact that there are rules, systems, and structures…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 25, 2025
Tags AU 2025, Civil 3D 2024, video, project template, sheet set template, Reference Template, TREF, Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2026