Looking for those end of year Continuing Education hours? You might want to consider our 🎆 2024 Virtual Workshops 🎆!

That CAD Girl has partnered with Carlson CAD Solutions to offer 16 sessions over 4 days for a total of 24 hours of presentations. You have the flexibility to attend some or all sessions to get the training you need! You will be able to review the recordings and download a certificate for the time you are logged into the session.

And only $99 for all sessions!

Some of our favorite experts from Carlson Software will be demonstrating the latest and greatest new features of Carlson’s desktop software.

• Bruce Carlson will demonstrate grading and hydrology in Carlson Civil, Hydrology and Precision 3d
• Doug Aaberg will be showing you how to get the most out of new functionality in Carlson Point Cloud Advanced, Photo Capture and Field to Finish.
• Mark Long is the consummate pro and never fails to dive deep into the Civil and Hydrology programs to demonstrate how to design and produce a final product on the most complex projects you can think of.

For the first time in many years, we’re happy to welcome Donnie Stallings back into our lineup! Donnie is a retired PLS and the original author of Carlson’s SurvNet Least Squares program.

Donnie will be presenting his class, Adjusting YOUR Datasets with SurvNet Least Squares, on Tuesday Dec 10^th and he is looking for a challenge! He is requesting that you send in your most confounding data files for him to incorporate into his lesson plan. Call us at (954) 223-4475 or just click here to upload your files directly to us.

Click here to view the full announcement or to register now!

Call or email us if you have any questions! Can’t wait to “see” you online!

I’d like to say a great big “Thank you” to the Maryland Society of Surveyors for inviting me to speak at your upcoming conference – it’ll be great to see you again!

Join me for my sessions on Survey Project from Start to Finish and Surface Modeling in Carlson Software.

In between sessions, please don’t hesitate to stop by my booth in the exhibit hall to say “Hi!” and ask any questions you have about Carlson Software.

See you in Ocean City! 🌊🏖️

I’m very excited to be going back to My Old Kentucky Home and having the privilege of teaching a couple of classes at the 2024 KAPS Annual Conference!

One of my sessions will be a new formulation that combines parts of my Field to Finish class with Survey Project from Field to Plotted sheet. Can’t wait to see everyone there!

We’re ready to meet and greet the LSAW Surveyors next week!

We have recently updated our Webinar Series and Virtual Classroom schedules with dates in February and March!

If you’ve recently purchased software, you are eligible to attend any and all sessions of our Webinar Series. Just go to the Webinar Series tab in the upper-right corner of your That CAD Girl Customer portal to find the links to each session.

Click here if you have no recent purchases but would like to attend as a guest.

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’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!

It was a really fun time at the Carlson User Conference last week in Maysville and it’s always great to see everyone. The folks running the show did a superb job with scheduling and Maysville rolled out the red carpet. I got excellent feedback from attendees about all the classes and extra-curricular activities!

See below for pictures of events and some of our favorite people in support who are often heard – but rarely seen!

I’m very excited to announce the official lineup for our end of year workshops!

We’ll be in the same locations this year and will generally follow the same format with a couple of exceptions. Based on your feedback we will have half-day sessions with Dean Goodman covering SurvNet Least Squares in both Statesville & Raleigh. And, by popular demand, we’re giving Mark Long his own room this year and he will be covering some pretty advanced material for roadway design and grading and also advanced hydrology.

Registration is now open!

Please note that the Hendersonville event has very limited seating and, once we hit our capacity, we’ll have to shuffle others off to Statesville. So, if Hendersonville is your first choice, make sure to register early.

All events are $99 for 8 hours and NC licensed engineers & surveyors will receive 8 PDH credits. Early registration discounts are available for Statesville & Raleigh only.

Also included at each event? Lunch! Snacks! Day-of-show pricing on software, hardware and maintenance renewals! Software giveaways!

2016 Hendersonville Workshop for Surveyors & Engineers on Tuesday, Nov 15^th

Topics: CAD & Carlson Tips & Tricks, Traverse Adjustment in Carlson Survey, Basics of Surfaces, Grading & Road Design

See More Details or Register Here

2016 Statesville Workshop for Surveyors on Wednesday, Nov 16^th

Topics: Dean Goodman with ½ day SurvNet Least Squares, CAD & Carlson Tips & Tricks, Beginning Surface Modeling, Centerlines & Profiles, Annotaton & Labeling Secrets of Carlson, Field to Finish from Start to Finish and Beyond Field to Finish – Using SurvCE, SurvPC & Carlson Survey to be More Productive

See More Details or Register Here

2016 Statesville Workshop for Engineers & Designers on Thursday, Nov 17^th

Topics: Mark Long with ½ day Advanced Roadway Grading and ½ day Advanced Hydrology, Drawing Cleanup & SiteNet for takeoffs and model building, Site Grading project from start to finish, Design Tools of Carlson Software and Profile & Cross Section Sheet Production

See More Details or Register Here

2016 Raleigh Workshop for Surveyors on Tuesday, Dec 6^th

Topics: Dean Goodman with ½ day SurvNet Least Squares, CAD & Carlson Tips & Tricks, Beginning Surface Modeling, Centerlines & Profiles, Annotaton & Labeling Secrets of Carlson, Field to Finish from Start to Finish and Beyond Field to Finish – Using SurvCE, SurvPC & Carlson Survey to be More Productive

See More Details or Register Here

2016 Raleigh Workshop for Engineers & Designers on Wednesday, Dec 7^th

Topics: Mark Long with ½ day Advanced Roadway Grading and ½ day Advanced Hydrology, Drawing Cleanup & SiteNet for takeoffs and model building, Site Grading project from start to finish, Design Tools of Carlson Software and Profile & Cross Section Sheet Production

See More Details or Register Here

What could be more exciting? Nevermind, no need to respond.

Anyhoo… If you are interested in learning more about the National CAD Standard (NCS) and how it might help streamline your projects, take an hour and attend this live presentation to get your questions answered!

Did you think the NCS is only for architects? Is it just for CAD? Or BIM? Wondering if it’s as scary as you’ve always imagined? Need a quick overview to see what’s in there?

Aside from default settings in the programs (hello CONT-MNR and CONT-MJR!), there have never really been CAD standards in the land surveying & civil engineering world but the National CAD Standard is a good option for those who want a quick-start. Carlson Software and Civil 3d both include NCS-based templates on installation and it’s easier than ever to implement.

Also, attend this webinar to learn more about what the Survey/Civil Task Team has already accomplished in making the NCS more applicable to those of us in the land development industries.

Here’s that link to REGISTER again