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.
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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
It’s a pretty good bet that most people in Civil 3D Land consider Points to be pretty much a survey thing in Civil 3D. It’s an even better bet that these same folks have complaints about Civil 3D’s point display representations, or rather point resolutions. It’s sad but true. Many want and still try and force Civil 3D to behave like older CAD software.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 15, 2025
Tags points, Survey Codes, Standards, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, customization, Implementation
The Autodesk marketing people say that everyone wants an Autodesk Civil 3D built their way. This is wishful thinking.
Professional civil engineers and surveyors really want their expensive Autodesk code to work and produce work that is acceptable to them and those that they deliver their work too. If that’s the goal of your Autodesk Civil 3D customizations or improvements,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 08, 2025
Tags customization, implementation, Civil 2D 2026, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, templates, styles, symbols, layer standard, layers, blocks
The new Framework for Civil 3D products for Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 officially hit the street this week. The latest and greatest Jump Kit Release 8 product for Civil 3D 2026 includes huge libraries of well-crafted, integrated, and system managed Civil 3D content resources.
If we want Autodesk Civil 3D to work better, the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 17, 2025
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2026, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Upgrade, Update, Drainage Analysis, Implementation
For good reasons Autodesk Civil 3D doesn’t police whether we pile a bunch of Civil 3D Features into a single drawing and then design, QAQC, and publish that way. Civil 3D doesn’t care. We manage this Civil 3D reality or not. In the real world, most of us are unlikely to work on a project that requires only a single drawing. We do not work in a world where civil engineering and survey…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 13, 2025
Tags project template, customization, implementation, CAD Standards, Project Management, performance