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
There are reasonable and somewhat logical business reasons not to employ the latest and greatest release of Autodesk Civil 3D. The on-going work on our civil engineering and survey projects is a reality.
Out here in Civil 3D Land, some people upgrade only on odd releases and some folks upgrade only on even releases. There are historical,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 22, 2026
Tags Civil 3D 2026, Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Upgrade, Implementation, TCO, ROI
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
Are we here to talk about the latest software changes and improvements to Autodesk Civil 3D? Nope. Yep. There are recent Updates for Autodesk Civil 3D 2026, Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, and even Civil 3D 2023. There are new Framework for Civil 3D Updates builds available too.
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The recent…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 31, 2025
Tags Implementation, customization, project template, Project Management, sheet set template, template, Style, Label Style
Merry Christmas to everyone out there in Civil 3D Land. This year Santa Claus already left a gift or two under our trees. Are we going to open one? You betcha.
Since the Thanksgiving holiday, Autodesk released updates for all the current releases of Civil 3D - That includes the important Civil 3D 2026.2 Update and maintenance Updates for Civil 3D 2025, Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 23, 2025
Tags Civil 3D 2026, Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Upgrade, Update