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
Many folks out here in Civil 3D Land have been waiting for the Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.1 Update to arrive. We all hope for better and more stable code to work with. The Civil 3D Update 1 Myth survives. Are you among the civil engineers and surveyors averse to zeros in release number of their daily use production software? You are not alone.
Earlier…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 06, 2025
Tags Civil 2D 2026, Upgrade, Update, Grading Optimization, Desktop Connector, Drainage Analysis, Model Viewer, video
It is Civil 3D Update time again. It is that time of year. We are rapidly approaching the release of the first Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.1 Update. How can we know that? Isn’t it a little early in the summer for a Civil 3D 2026 Update 1? Maybe a little.
Perhaps you noticed the earlier schedule for this year's Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 19, 2025
Tags Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Civil 3D 2023, Update, Upgrade, Map 3D, AutoCAD, Desktop Connector, Batch Save, Core Console
Autodesk celebrated Halloween and Election Week in the United States with the release of their latest version of the Autodesk Desktop Connector (ADC). The Autodesk official release date is listed as Oct 30, 2024. Actual downloads of the new release from the public download page were not available until the early days of the first week of November for reasons unknown.
No…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 07, 2024
Tags Desktop Connector, ADC, Project Management, Reference Explorer, project, project template, Autodesk Docs
Some folks will unquestionably wait for an upcoming Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.1 Update before they upgrade to the 2025 release of Civil 3D. That’s a historical habit thing, do’n ja know. Before and during the recent July 4th week, Autodesk released the Civil 3D 2025.02 Update, a couple of significant Civil 3D Tools, and those sometimes vital…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 10, 2024
Tags Civil 2D 2025, Toolbox, Desktop Connector, transformation, Survey, Reference Explorer, geotechnical, Update