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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 22, 2025
Tags XREF, DREF, IREF, Project Management, Data Shortcut Manager, Data Shortcut Editor, Reference Explorer, video, DWF
Have you ever hopped up and down on solid ground that bounces like jello? I recently had the chance. All kinds of fun. This wiggly weirdness occurred at the end of my own street earlier this month. It so happens that my neighborhood is part of an on-going city curb and gutter, sidewalk, and repave project.
Miracle of miracles. For once in 30 years our California gas taxes are at work in…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 24, 2025
Tags geotechnical, GeoDin, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Civil 2D 2026, surface, points, video
Autodesk released Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 and the other related Autodesk Infrastructure products officially on April Fools Day 2025. Technically, the actual product downloads and/or deployment builds from the Autodesk Access app and the Autodesk Subscription site were not generally available until the second of April for most US…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 03, 2025
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2026, AutoCAD 2026, Map 3D 2026, Upgrade, Update, video
The Autodesk annual Right of Spring continues this week with the release of AutoCAD 2026 and the AutoCAD 2026 Toolsets. There is something new in this recent release of AutoCAD 2026 for almost everyone.
Yes. There are many Autodesk Cloud and Autodesk Docs based improvements included in the new AutoCAD. Trust me. Everyone will like the program…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 26, 2025
Tags AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2026, Map 3D 2026, Upgrade, Update, Civil 3D 2026, video
We are dependent on Autodesk Civil 3D to get our project work done and to execute our work and produce our deliverables. The number of formal data Dependencies inside Civil 3D and our civil engineering and survey projects appears to do nothing but increase and become more complex. Dependencies are trending and dependencies also tend to explode.
Software…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 06, 2025
Tags DREF, TREF, IREF, data reference, data shortcut, reference, Dynamiic Model, Project Management, video