In This Issue
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Last Chance for 2009 PDH Credit
8 Hours Hands-On Training Available |
| End Of Year Pricing Specials for Carlson Software |
| Lunch & Learn Fridays - Carlson & IntelliCAD/AutoCAD |
Recent Carlson Releases
Carlson Construction and Carlson Survey 2010 with Embedded AutoCAD 2010 |
Carlson Software Tip of the Month
Export Drawing to Google Earth |
| Eagle Point Software: Going, Going, Gone... |
| Why You Should Consider Online Training |
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| Last Chance to Get 2009 PDH Credits |
We will be holding a full-day of hands-on training on Monday, January 11th.
The training will be held at the Hampton Inn on Ashville Avenue in Cary, NC. The cost is $99 and I will provide lunch. NC licensed surveyors and engineers will receive 8 hours PDH credit that can be used for 2009 or 2010 (you must wait to renew your license until after this training in order to count it for 2009).
Topics for the day will be split between AutoCAD/IntelliCAD and Carlson Survey and Civil. If you do not have software, you can bring a laptop and we will provide the software for you.
You can register online for the training here or call us at 919-417-8351 to register by phone. Registration for this session is limited to 12 people. If the interest is there, I may add a 2nd day, but it is not scheduled at this time.
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| End of Year Pricing Specials |
As they normally do, Carlson Software is extending discounted pricing for some of their products through the end of 2009. And, as I normally do, I am further discounting Carlson's prices.
Until December 31, 2009, our price for Carlson's Civil Suite is $2,150 (Retail is $3,500). Carlson Civil Suite includes Carlson Survey, Civil, Hydrology & GIS. These programs can be run on top of any AutoCAD-based software versions 2000-2010 or with the FREE IntelliCAD 6.6 that is included with every purchase.
You can read more about Carlson's Civil Suite package here. Please contact us at ContactUs@thatcadgirl.com or (919) 417-8351 for a customized pricing proposal. As a reminder, That CAD Girl also offers one FREE hour of customized, online training with your purchase of Carlson Software.
We are also running a special price of $6,595 for Carlson TakeOff through the end of 2009.
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| Lunch & Learn Online Webinars |
| These interactive, online sessions will last approximately 1 hour. NC licensed engineers and surveyors who complete the follow-up quiz will receive 1 hour of PDH credit. Cost for each is $20. Follow links below to sign up or search by date on our Training Calendar. |
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Preparing DWG Files For Surface Modeling Or Machine Control
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Working with the CUI Editor & Creating Custom Commands
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Designing Retaining Walls And Multi-Level Building Pads
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Tips & Tricks for Recovering Corrupt Drawings
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Have a topic you'd like to see in a 1-hour Lunch & Learn session?
Email us here with your suggestions.
In addition, we will begin holding Carlson User Group meetings in January of 2010. Please take this brief survey and provide us with your thoughts on when and where to hold the classes and other details.
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| Recent Carlson Releases |
Carlson Construction is a new program that combines some of the menus and commands from Carlson Civil, Survey and Takeoff that are most useful to those in the construction business and anyone else needing to build surface models for machine control systems.
The Import/Export utilities available in Construction are some of its most valuable features. Construction allows you to import Microstation DGN files, Civil 3D surfaces, PDF files and surfaces from Google Earth. From Construction, you are able to Export native formats to most machine control systems such as Leica and TopCon.
Visit the Carlson Construction web page here.
There are also upgrade paths to Carlson Construction from Carlson Civil, Survey and Civil Suite. Email us or call 919.417.8351 for a customized pricing proposal.
Carlson Survey 2010 with Embedded AutoCAD has also been released recently. This version of Carlson Survey includes a stripped-down version of AutoCAD (similar to AutoCAD LT) for its drafting platform. Carlson Survey with embedded AutoCAD has a retail price of $2,995. There are upgrade paths available from previous releases of Survey with Embedded AutoCAD.
Read more about all of the Carlson 2010 products here.
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Carlson Software Tip of the Month
Export Drawing to Google Earth
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I've recently started using a very cool feature in Carlson Software. The bad thing... it was in the 2009 version and I didn't even realize it!
I had no idea exporting our DWG files from IntelliCAD or AutoCAD out to Google Earth was so easy.
- Download and install Google Earth. You can download it here: http://earth.google.com/
- Open any one of your project DWG files that has been positioned at its correct state plane coordinate system.
- In Carlson, go to Settings → Drawing Setup and then select the correct Projection and correct Zone for the project site. If you're not sure of the Projection, try using "State Plane 83". This will work for most systems.
- Next, go to File → Polyline File → Write Polyline File. When prompted for "Polyline File Format", type "G" for Google. You will be prompted to specify a new filename and save location for a "Google Earth File to Write (.kml)".
- You will then be prompted to select the entities that are to be exported out to the .kml file and viewed in Google Earth. After selecting the entities, press Enter. For this exercise, we only want to see the drawing entities in 2D, so press "N" for "No" when prompted to "Use elevation from drawing in Google Earth [Yes/<No>]?"
- Finally, you are then prompted "Would you like to display the file in Google Earth now [<Yes>/No]?". Press "Y" for "Yes". Google Earth should automatically launch and zoom into the project location.
In the example shown below and pointed out with arrows, notice how closely the new roads and designed turn lanes match up to the existing roadway. Also, you can see the designed graded slopes perfectly avoiding the tank that is to be preserved during construction.
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Not too shabby...
This feature is available in all of the Carlson Desktop products: Carlson Civil, Survey, Hydrology, Construction and TakeOff.
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| Eagle Point Software: Going, Going, Gone... |
Following Autodesk's lead in retiring Land Desktop, Eagle Point Software has recently announced the end of their civil-survey product line.
Carlson Software is now the only reasonably priced software solution that offers a complete surveying & design solution and that won't cost you thousands of dollars every year to stay current. Visit www.thatcadgirl.com to learn more or download our mailer inviting Eagle Point customers to see what Carlson Software has to offer.
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Carlson is offering special pricing to Eagle Point customers to help them migrate over to a similar Carlson program or programs. That CAD Girl is also offering one hour of FREE, customized, online training for all purchases of Carlson products.
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| Why You Should Consider Online Training |
Have a last-minute training request? Don't have time for travel?
Online training is quickly becoming the most popular form of training that we offer. Why? One reason is the immediate nature of it. Assume you are working on a project and just can't get your profiles to draw the way you need them to. In many cases we can schedule an online training class with only a few hours' notice.
And, like all other training, this training will be customized and personalized to you, your office and your project. Check out our list of AutoCAD classes , list of Carlson Software classes or list of Land Desktop/Civil Design classes for training ideas. Custom Training can be developed for any, all or a combination of the classes listed.
Additionally, if you find yourself having problems or not able to work your way through a specific project, we can customize your training to walk through the project, start to finish, in order to get it completed.
If you'd like to speak to one of our online training customers to hear how well it has worked for them, please contact us and we will make those arrangements.
Click here for more reasons you should consider online training.
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