There are three mission critical and distinct process concepts to attend to in modern model-based design.
Our iteratively built model and the managed data behind on which that model depends allow us to produce the published results that we need to produce our deliverables.There are rules, systems,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 09, 2026
Tags dynamic model, XREF, IREF, DREF, TREF, Project Management, project template, Civil 3D 2027
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
We recently released the Jump Kit 2027 and Templates Only 2027 products. Templates Only includes reasonable example drawings and some essential civil data content. Such basic examples are nice. We don’t believe they are enough. Our Jump Kit products always include multiple Civil 3D Sandbox Projects in both STB and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 29, 2026
Tags Implementation, Upgrade, Update, sandbox, Civil 3D 2027, Civil 3D 2026, project template, sheet set template
Happy February! What do you know? It’s new fiscal year for Autodesk this month. This means those powers start to roll out upgrades and updates to some code in preparation for the annual Autodesk Rite of Spring. Autodesk kicks things off this year with a pretty significant update to the Autodesk Desktop Connector 17.1.0.16 (ADC).
Autodesk Civil 3D users should…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 05, 2026
Tags ADC, Desktop Connector, Project Management, project template, Reference Explorer, CAD Standards
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