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Carlson Tip of the Day… Virtually “printing” to PDF, DWF, JPG and PNG files
If you’ve recently switched from an AutoCAD-based program to Carlson with IntelliCAD, one thing you may miss is having the ability to virtually “plot” your drawings to PDF, DWF, [...]Read more
Carlson Tip of the Day… Wiped Out Property Corner Symbols
I get this question quite a lot and thought it would be a good topic for Tips of the day… Problem: Lines or polylines of a boundary show up inside your open property corner symbols. See the [...]Read more
Did You Know… About Carlson’s Export to KMZ (Google Earth) Command?
Carlson Software gives you the ability to export drawing entities directly to the Google Earth application or, alternatively, to a .kml or .kmz file that can be opened in Google Earth. At this [...]Read more
Did you know… About the Flatten Command?
FLATTEN is an Express Tools command in AutoCAD and a standard command in IntelliCAD. It allows you to quickly convert 3d objects to a 0-elevation, flat version of itself. Most of us in the [...]Read more
Did you know… about all the different selection methods in CAD?
Anyone who has used AutoCAD or IntelliCAD for any period of time will be familiar with a few of the selection methods available to you during editing commands… although you may not know the [...]Read more
Did you know… about the new rainfall libraries in Carlson Hydrology 2013?
With the 2013 release of Carlson Hydrology, Carlson is shipping complete rainfall libraries for the following cities in North Carolina: Asheville Cary Chapel Hill Charlotte Concord Durham [...]Read more
Did you know… About the Change Space Command?
Some of us are old enough to remember life without the CHSPACE command… and what a great addition it was when the command was finally introduced to AutoCAD several years ago. And, with the [...]Read more
Did you know… that you can print your CTB files?
Several years ago when I started my business, my first contract was as an outside CAD manager for a civil & land planning firm. In trying to document their pen weights, screening, etc. I [...]Read more
Did you know… About DWG Convert & True View?
As most everyone knows, every 3 years Autodesk ruins a perfectly good DWG format by introducing a new one… With the 2013 version of the Autodesk products now released, anyone using a [...]Read more
Did you know… about DWG to PDF?
Since I have to send so many files to different people in PDF format, I purchased Adobe Acrobat several years ago. Once installed, “Adobe PDF” shows up in my list of available [...]Read more