If we read the coffee grounds, it is easy to tell that Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 is almost upon us. AutoCAD 2026 and the Map 3D Toolset already hit the street. Hoorah. This week in preparation for that pending Civil 3D 2026 release, Autodesk released Civil 3D Updates for Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2024, and Civil 3D 2025.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 27, 2025
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2024, Civil 3D 2025, Batch Save, Update, Project Management
For good reasons Autodesk Civil 3D doesn’t police whether we pile a bunch of Civil 3D Features into a single drawing and then design, QAQC, and publish that way. Civil 3D doesn’t care. We manage this Civil 3D reality or not. In the real world, most of us are unlikely to work on a project that requires only a single drawing. We do not work in a world where civil engineering and survey…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 13, 2025
Tags project template, customization, implementation, CAD Standards, Project Management, performance
Whether or not we choose to employ Styleless Data References in our Civil 3Dprojects is a business decision that deserves some careful consideration. There are Civil 3D technical, stability, and project performance reasons to take the time to do so.
For the most part the NoStyles workflow mechanics are mindlessly simple to execute. In the context of most…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 20, 2025
Tags DREF, Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, Update, Upgrade, implementation, QAQC, project template
We previously discussed the challenges that surround the formal data Dependencies that play an integral role our daily production work inside Autodesk Civil 3D. It is safe to say that we learn to manage Dependencies, or the Dependencies control us.
Put another way – we employ Civil 3D to produce managed projects of data references and those…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 13, 2025
Tags DREF, Project Management, data shortcut, data reference, Update, Upgrade, Style Management, implementation, QAQC
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