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 art of production and publication Civil 3D Standards is all about the construction and maintenance of managed, known, and current States. There is no singularity in Civil 3D Standards although such standards can feel like a time-sucking, black hole. After all, we are talking about sets of collections of variable properties.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 18, 2023
Tags layers, layer state, Layer Manager, CAD Standards, implementation, customization, video, Layer State Manager
The Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit product is notable and perhaps even famous for the product’s native support for multiple variations of the National CAD Standard (NCS) Layer Standards. These include the current NCS 6.0 and NCS 6.0 AIA variants. These common NCS Layer Standard variants are variously required for GSA, DOD, and US Army Corps project submittals.
People ask,
“Does…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 14, 2022
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, CAD Management, NCS, NCS 6.0, layers, layer state, video, Jump Kit, LAYTRANS
New Civil 3D Updates are a good thing. The Civil 3D code gets more stable and things work better for most Civil 3D users who do the do in Civil 3D Land. Hoorah. We all know by now the newer tools and new features in new tools can sometimes be more problematic. Both the recent Civil 3D 2019.3+ Updates and the CiviI 2020.1+ Updates play par for the course. Lots of good with a few new wonky wonks.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 17, 2019
Tags Update, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2020, TREF, Reference Template, Drawing Settings, layers, CAD Standards, Object Settings, Style Management, interop
My Super Bowl weekend I spent rebuilding my workday computer workstation. Sometimes the painful truth of the perverse nature of inanimate objects slaps you upside the head. We all know the drill. The whine is ready before its time. No drive whine for me. A new fat SSD rocks.
I probably install more versions of a lot of Autodesk apps than most folk. Afterall the Framework for Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 05, 2019
Tags dwf, layers, ULAYERS, plan production tool, project template, video, publish on demand, Release 7, Release 8