Jump On Civil 3D Blog

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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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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Whether or not we choose to employ Styleless Data References in our Civil 3Dprojects is a business decision that deserves some careful consideration. There are Civil 3D technical, stability, and project performance reasons to take the time to do so.

For the most part the NoStyles workflow mechanics are mindlessly simple to execute. In the context of most…

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We previously discussed the challenges that surround the formal data Dependencies that play an integral role our daily production work inside Autodesk Civil 3D. It is safe to say that we learn to manage Dependencies, or the Dependencies control us.

Put another way – we employ Civil 3D to produce managed projects of data references and those…

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