Autodesk recently announced a $3.6 billion dollar purchase of MaintainX and the subsequent creation of the new Autodesk Operations Solutions group inside Autodesk. From away up here in the cheap seats, we believe this is the largest, single technology purchase that Autodesk has ever made. Something to consider seriously.
Somewhere there must be a video about…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 11, 2026
Tags customization, implementation, operations, Jump Kit, Drainage Analysis, video, Spreadsheet Tools
We are daily users of Autodesk Civil 3D out here in Civil 3D Land. All of us have ongoing production projects. We must embrace the day-to-day concerns that our civil engineering and survey work involves. Let’s face it - The specifics of the latest new Autodesk Civil 3D release or update may or may not blow us away. Frankly, the new Civil 3D features may not appear…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 21, 2025
Tags Upgrade, Update, Spreadsheet Tools, Jump Kit, Layer Standards, CAD Management, video, Civil 2D 2026, NCS
Civil 3D contains numerous details that can come back to bite us when we proactively tackle Civil 3D Style Maintenance and Improvement. We do tend to take for granted the classic AutoCAD Styles. We already know all about that Layer, Block, Textstyle stuff we’ve lived with for all these years.
We believe that…“We already have all of that ACAD stuff covered…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 23, 2024
Tags Style, Style Management, CAD Standards, maintenance, template, Reference Template, block, textstyle, Layer Standards, Spreadsheet Tools
Autodesk released a huge new and improved Dynamo for Civil inside the recent Civil 3D 2025.1 Update. The new Dynamo supports the latest Dynamo 3.2.2 core and includes over 1100 new and/or improved Dynamo nodes for many things AutoCAD and Civil 3D.
The new and long-awaited Dynamo for Civil 3D 2025.1 Update is certainly the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 12, 2024
Tags Batch Save, Dynamo, Dynamo Player, customization, Update, Upgrade, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Map 3D, spreadsheet, video
Out here in Civil 3D Land we are daily users of Autodesk Civil 3D. All of us have production projects and those day-to-day, ongoing concerns. The specifics of the latest new Autodesk Civil 3D product Release or Update may or may not blow us away. The odds are good we will benefit from a new Civil 3D Release and the Civil 3D Updates to the older Civil 3D releases…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 24, 2023
Tags Civil 3D, customization, spreadsheet, Jump Kit, CAD Standards, CAD Management, Layer Standards, video