In 2020 with the onset of COVID, Carlson Software began offering the option of 90-Day licenses to accommodate users working at home. Just this weekend, we were notified that the 90-day licenses are no longer being offered as an option.

If you are currently running a 90-day license, you will need to consider purchasing a full license before yours expires. We will be sending out notices to our customers to give you as much advance notice as possible.

Please contact Claire or me at [email protected] or (954) 223-4495 if you have questions or need pricing.

We’ve had many requests to make the recordings from our 2022 Virtual Workshops available for purchase – so we’ve listened! You can now purchase access to all of those recordings for only $99.

Across all session over 6 days, we have about 36 hours of recorded training. The sessions Included:

Day 1, Introduction to CAD, Plain CAD… AutoCAD or IntelliCAD… for the new user

Day 2, Introduction to Carlson Software for the new user

Day 3, Carlson Software Showcase featuring Q & A Round-Table and Ask-the-Expert sessions with Carlson Software staff

Day 4, Carlson Field to Finish, from start to finish

Day 5, Civil Design in Carlson Software

Day 6, Carlson Software Case-Studies and Tips & Tricks

If you have any questions, please reach out to Claire DiBlasi or me at [email protected].

Although we’ve already completed 2 of our 6-days of workshops, we’ve continued to get calls and requests to register for the remaining days. 

It’s true that “the best is yet to come” but, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and end-of-year specials, we’ve decided to reduce the cost of the registration to $99 for the remaining sessions.

Coming up Tuesday Nov 29th, we are putting the sales, support and development teams from Carlson Software in the hot seat to answer your questions! You won’t want to miss this!

Currently scheduled: Bruce Carlson, Leonid Entov, Scott Griffin, Butch Herter, Mark Long, Doug Aaberg, Sara Winter, Shan Lu, Lon Watson, John Gerber and more!

I’ve been pretty impressed with the stability and performance of the Carlson 2023 products so it’s not a surprise that they have released Survey OEM 2023 so quickly.

Wondering what’s new in the latest release? Don’t miss our FAQ: What are the improvements to Carlson over previous versions? 

Anyone who purchased 2022 after 10/1/2022 is eligible for a free upgrade to 2023. Please send Claire or me an email at [email protected] and we’ll help you get your new serial number.

If you are interested in running a 30-day trial to try it before you buy it, please reach out to us and we will be happy to send that to you as well. 

PS: Carlson’s and That CAD Girl’s year-end specials are ongoing through 12/31/2022… don’t miss out!

I’m just finishing up the agenda for the first day of our 2022 Virtual Workshops – and I couldn’t wait to share! On Tuesday 11/15 we’ll have 6 hours together for an Introduction to CAD. I guess I’m well on my way to developing a “series” of these Fast Track to… sessions.

Whether you’re using AutoCAD or IntelliCAD, I think this is going to be a very helpful training session because it’s scheduled with plenty of time to dig into some of the necessities for beginners. And, although this is a lead-in to Introduction to Carlson Software next week, this is SIMPLY CAD STUFF and will be perfect for beginners!

Here’s a bullet list:

• Drawing Environment and Settings
• Basic Draw Commands
• Basic Edit Commands
• Layers, linetypes and lineweights
• Linetype Scales
• Blocks and External References
• Model and Paper Space
• Drawing Templates
• National CAD Standards

If you think this lesson plan would help you or co-workers out, there’s still time to register… only $199 for 6 days of training, and you can pick and choose which session(s) you’d like to attend!

Carlson has recently announced their year-end pricing for desktop software. This year’s specials include Survey with embedded AutoCAD (OEM), Select Suite Pick 2, Select Suite Pick 4, Civil Suite and a steep discount to upgrade your Point Cloud Basic to Point Cloud Advanced! Not sure what you need? Click here for our FAQ:P3D? or Point Cloud? then Point Cloud Basic? or Point Cloud Advanced? 

In addition to the specials being offered directly from Carlson, That CAD Girl has additional discounts and pricing for Carlson Takeoff Suite, Takeoff OEM and Point Cloud Advanced. You can find the end-of-year specials listed here and you can also check out our Active Coupon Codes for additional discounts.

What else? All software purchases through That CAD Girl are eligible for half-price registration to our Virtual Workshop and a year’s access to our live, interactive webinar training sessions.

Purchases of Carlson Takeoff Suite and Takeoff OEM will also give you a free registration to our 2-day Fast Track with Carlson Takeoff training in January 2023. We aren’t just interested in selling you the software – we want you to use it and love it!

Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you can find our Picks and Clicks videos plus several “Product Overview” recordings that demonstrate features in different programs.

On November 1, 2022 Carlson Software released the 2023 version of their desktop products. With the 2023 release, Carlson is focusing more on performance and stability and a little less on new bells and whistles… I’m guessing the next version will be heavy in the other direction!

Carlson 2023 products will ship with both a preview release of IntelliCAD 11.0 and 10.1 and can also run on top of your separately purchased license of AutoCAD 2018-2023.

Carlson Survey 2023 with embedded AutoCAD (OEM) is expected to be released within the next few weeks but it’s unclear at this time whether there will be a 2023 release of Takeoff OEM.

Any user who has purchased Survey OEM 2022 after 10/1/2022 will receive a free upgrade to Survey OEM 2023. If this applies to you, please Email us and we’ll make sure you get your free upgrade.

If you are currently running Carlson and have an active maintenance contract, you are eligible for a free upgrade to Carlson Software 2023. You will need your 2022 serial number and can use this Lookup screen to find your 2023 serial number.

If you’re a past customer of That CAD Girl, you may be able to find your Carlson Customer ID, serial numbers and maintenance reports on our new customer portal. You can access your portal by clicking here and entering your email address. If you haven’t been granted Admin privileges by your company’s primary point of contact, you may have limited access.

You can read more about the new features and find more information here on Carlson Software’s 2023 product page.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you can find our Picks and Clicks videos plus several “Product Overview” recordings that demonstrate features in different programs.

FAQ: What are the improvements to Carlson over previous versions? (a running thread)

And, don’t forget…

We’re a little late getting this posted but registration for our 2022 Virtual Workshops is now open! We are expecting to get back to our “regularly scheduled programming” (i.e. in-person workshops) in 2023 but, in the meantime, we want to make sure we give everyone more than you’re expecting.

Sessions start on November 15th and we will be offering more than 30 hours of sessions spread over 6 days!

Registration is only $199 and you can attend as many or as few sessions as you’d like.

We are implementing some big changes behind the scenes here at That CAD Girl so I ask your patience as we slowly roll out more training and support options to our customers.

First and upcoming are two new specialty webinars with Travis covering the much asked about topics of site and subdivision design and grading. All our classes can be found here on our Classrooms and Conferences page and we’ll be adding more soon.

Description: This 2-day webinar is intended for anyone who is tasked with producing stormwater plans and calculations using Carlson Hydrology, specifically Stormnet(pipe networks) and Hydronet (detention ponds).

Designed by Travis Maxwell, PE, the webinar follows the design process Travis has developed from 28 years of stormwater permitting and design experience. The webinar will cover Storm Network design using Carlson’s Stormnet on the first day and Detention Design on the second day using Hydronet.

The webinar will begin with an overview of the design standards and calculations incorporated into the software and will conclude with completed calculations and drawings. A custom tool palette which provides commands in a step by step order will be used and provided to all attendees.

The webinar will cover “all the bells and whistles” included with Carlson Hydrology Module and should provide a solid base for anyone involved with stormwater design using Carlson Software.

Please click here for the full announcement and complete details

Format: Live, Interactive, Virtual Webinars – Presentation & Demonstration with lots of Q & A

Location: ONLINE via Go To Webinar

Price: $600 for 2 days

Included: Handouts and supporting spreadsheets, custom Tool Palette, recording (technology permitting)

Hours: 10:00 – 4:30 PM ET (total of 9 hours over two days)

Certificates: Will be provided