We grind away at some nuanced and significant improvements to the Framework for Civil 3D Standards documentation that we supply with both our Templates Only and Jump Kit products. We promise customers will see this work real soon now. We await the next Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.2 Update that is due out any day now. Hoorah.
Historically,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 06, 2025
Tags CAD Standards, Civil 2D 2026, Update, customization, Multiple Baseline Corridors, video, Standards, Implementation, DREF
If we think about it our investments in Civil 3D development and customization generate a bit of a paradox. Out here in Civil 3D Land there’s an intriguing question about Autodesk Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and Civil 3D resource development. Is the customization of Civil 3D worth it?
The Is it Worth it…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 30, 2025
Tags customization, implementation, project, Civil 3D, CAD Standards, development, Jump Kit, Templates Only
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
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