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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.

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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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If we read the coffee grounds, it is easy to tell that Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 is almost upon us. AutoCAD 2026 and the Map 3D Toolset already hit the street. Hoorah. This week in preparation for that pending Civil 3D 2026 release, Autodesk released Civil 3D Updates for Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2024, and Civil 3D 2025.…

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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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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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