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
We are daily users of Autodesk Civil 3D out here in Civil 3D Land. All of us have ongoing production projects. We must embrace the day-to-day concerns that our civil engineering and survey work involves. Let’s face it - The specifics of the latest new Autodesk Civil 3D release or update may or may not blow us away. Frankly, the new Civil 3D features may not appear…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 21, 2025
Tags Upgrade, Update, Spreadsheet Tools, Jump Kit, Layer Standards, CAD Management, video, Civil 2D 2026, NCS
We thought that it would be fun, instructive, and useful for our potential Jump Kit customers to toss our Framework for Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 Standards PDF document into some of the current popular AI apps for a summary and analysis of certain key aspects of the Civil 3D Standards problems. Afterall, we all face these issues out here in Civil 3D Land.
We…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 23, 2025
Tags CAD Standards, AI, Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2026, Civil 3D 2024, implementation, customization
It’s a pretty good bet that most people in Civil 3D Land consider Points to be pretty much a survey thing in Civil 3D. It’s an even better bet that these same folks have complaints about Civil 3D’s point display representations, or rather point resolutions. It’s sad but true. Many want and still try and force Civil 3D to behave like older CAD software.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 15, 2025
Tags points, Survey Codes, Standards, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, customization, Implementation
For good reasons Autodesk Civil 3D doesn’t police whether we pile a bunch of Civil 3D Features into a single drawing and then design, QAQC, and publish that way. Civil 3D doesn’t care. We manage this Civil 3D reality or not. In the real world, most of us are unlikely to work on a project that requires only a single drawing. We do not work in a world where civil engineering and survey…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 13, 2025
Tags project template, customization, implementation, CAD Standards, Project Management, performance