The Point is one of the most overused words in Autodesk Civil 3D. Are we talking about COGO points? Survey Points? Point Groups? Point data in a Surface? Points of Intersection in our horizontal, vertical, and cross section control?
This list of different and/or separate meanings for the word Point seems to be a never-ending story.
The mastery of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 12, 2026
Tags Description Key, Description Key Set, point, Point Style, Point Label Style, expressions, Expression Set, Property Set, point group, figure, survey db
Are we here to talk about the latest software changes and improvements to Autodesk Civil 3D? Nope. Yep. There are recent Updates for Autodesk Civil 3D 2026, Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, and even Civil 3D 2023. There are new Framework for Civil 3D Updates builds available too.
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The recent…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 31, 2025
Tags Implementation, customization, project template, Project Management, sheet set template, template, Style, Label Style
The Civil 3D Template Classic Target methods are the common Civil 3D Template construction and maintenance methodologies used to produce a target of collected Civil 3D Style resources. Many people consider a Civil 3D Template to be their Known Good and perhaps even their Style Management end goal.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 19, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, settings
Just prior to Autodesk University 2024 in San Deigo this week, Autodesk announced that the mothership is now an official LA 2028 Olympics sponsor. For the Northern California tech company that generates a ton of money from the AEC Industry, the Media and Entertainment crowd, and Manufacturing worldwide so a Design and Make sponsorship makes obvious…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 18, 2024
Tags AU 2024, WATT, UNITS, Label Style, Label Style Defaults
Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of immediate and published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Can we call this lust the One and Done? For surveyors this may mean Point data from Survey Dbs. I trust we have all moved beyond imported point files and drawing-centric COGO points? The Lord…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 12, 2024
Tags annotation, annotative scale, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style Management, Style Library, DREF, XREF, IREF, TREF