Human beings like a good tragedy. We like a good comedy too. Those facts are recognized in movie ticket sales and show ratings year after year in market after market. Did you notice they are about to release a new big screen version of Homer’s 2700-year-old action tale - The Odessey?
How can we miss that?We love a combination of the two classic, dramatic forms even…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 25, 2026
Tags Civil 3D, customization, project template, Project Management, project, Style Library, Style
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
Let’s proactively start off a new year with a chat about some practical and mission critical Autodesk Civil 3D realities.
Around here we build, manage, and maintain an enormous and deep set of Civil 3D Templates and Civil 3D Style resources for multiple releases of Civil 3D.
Like everyone else we had to learn the hard way to systematically…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 15, 2026
Tags template, sheet set template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Management, project template, development
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
Out here in Civil 3D Land there’s an intriguing notion about Civil 3D Templates, Civil 3D Styles, and Civil 3D resources development.
One side of the Autodesk Civil 3D development coin claims we must all do the complex customization work to create exactly what we need to get our work done…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 30, 2025
Tags customization, implementation, template, Style Management, Project Management, development