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
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
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 2D 2026, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, video, project template, sheet set template, Reference Template, TREF
Autodesk University 2025 in Nashville, TN officially kicks off today. Out here in Civil 3D Land we should pay close attention whether we attend the Really Big Show live or employ a free Digital Pass this week. The Digital Pass will get us access to the Main Stage presentations, some other goodies, and the magic of AU-Online…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 16, 2025
Tags Civil 2D 2026, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Update, AU 2025, Jump Kit, Templates Only
Autodesk University 2025 arrives early this year. AU 2025 is in Nashville TN and runs from Monday Sept 15, 2025 until Thursday Sept 18, 2025 this year. It has been a very long time - if not nearly forever - since AU was in the Central Time Zone or anywhere near Red State America. Must be a sign of the times.
One must wonder if there will be Autodesk Design…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 09, 2025
Tags AU 2025, Civil 2D 2026, Upgrade, Update, AU Online, Training