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
What to do about the new release of Civil 3D?
Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 hit the street just a month ago today. Some brave folks in Civil 3D Land rip off the Band-Aid and jump right in. Many folks take Autodesk’s latest and greatest with a hefty pinch of salt. They will wait a bit for the first Civil 3D 2026 Update. For somewhat historical and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 01, 2025
Tags Civil 2D 2026, AutoCAD, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, Templates Only
The new Framework for Civil 3D products for Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 officially hit the street this week. The latest and greatest Jump Kit Release 8 product for Civil 3D 2026 includes huge libraries of well-crafted, integrated, and system managed Civil 3D content resources.
If we want Autodesk Civil 3D to work better, the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 17, 2025
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2026, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Upgrade, Update, Drainage Analysis, Implementation
What is the Templates Only for Autodesk Civil 3D product? We get this question a lot for understandable reasons. We claim that Templates Only is a trial product. Templates Only is the quick and easy way to get a taste of our most popular product - Jump Kit is the Framework for Civil 3D.
Folks want to know, “Does…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 10, 2025
Tags Templates Only, Jump Kit, design, survey, Civil 2D 2026, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Civil 3D 2023, template
Late last week Autodesk released the Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.2.1 Update and the Autodesk Civil 3D 2024.4.3 Updates. These recent Civil 3D Updates synch up the Civil 3D Object Models in these older release with the upcoming release of Autodesk Civil 3D 2026.
These older release updates are all about Backwards Compatibility…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 31, 2025
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 2D 2025, Civil 3D 2024, Update, Upgrade