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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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What the heck is a Civil 3D Implementation Project?
An Implementation Project sounds like a term that a marketing expert might make up to sell us something. OK. We get that.
What if we rename it to The Civil 3D Project That Works?
We must admit that we need our Civil 3D projects to work.

Civil 3D projects quickly…

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Out here in Civil 3D Land there’s an intriguing notion about Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and Civil 3D resources development.

One side of the Autodesk Civil 3D development coin claims we must all do the complex customization work to create exactly what we need to get our work done…

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Most of the people we talk to everyday are advanced Civil 3D users, CAD Managers, and organization Project Managers and Principals who try to get work out the door and keep the wheels on the bus. Many of these folks are literally rebuilding the Civil 3D Magic Bus while it rolls down the road.

That is truly an act of daring do. That is also something we all must do.

Around…

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Many, if not most, of our Civil 3D Projects will involve multiple Reference Replacement processes and workflows. Many of us in Civil 3D Land employ the classic AutoCAD-based External References (XREF) basemap strategy in our plan set publications. We publish a stack of separate drawings to better separate and effectively manage the content of the…

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