Carlson Software is offering another great selection of Year End Specials!

Survey with embedded AutoCAD (OEM)

Select Suite Pick 2

Select Suite Pick 4

Civil Suite

Photo Capture and Point Cloud Advanced

A BIG discount to upgrade your Point Cloud Basic to Point Cloud Advanced!

And then, even MORE discounts through That CAD Girl!

We’re including FREE Maintenance with almost all Carlson Software modules and suites plus you’ll receive FREE training with every new purchase!

What else? All software purchases through That CAD Girl are eligible for 1 FREE registration to our Virtual Workshop, to one of our Virtual Classroom training events and a year’s access to our live, interactive webinar training sessions.

Purchases of Carlson Takeoff Suite and Takeoff OEM includes a FREE registration to our 2+ day Fast Track with Carlson Takeoff training in January 2024. We aren’t just interested in selling you the software – we want you to use it and love it!

Carlson has recently announced their year-end pricing for desktop software and they will run from Wednesday 11/1 thru Friday 12/29/2023!

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.

Request a Custom Proposal

Carlson has recently announced their year-end pricing for desktop software and they will run from Wednesday 11/1 thru Friday 12/29/2023!

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.

Request a Custom Proposal

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.

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 image below for an example:

The additional problem is that, if you trim the lines inside the symbols to make it look cleaner, you’re actually modifying the length of property lines so the distances from corner-to-corner are no longer accurate.

Here’s an alternative: You can download a modified set of Carlson’s point symbols that include a “wipeout” entity that hides the lines behind/underneath the open symbols instead of trimming them and changing the length of the lines. Using the new set of symbols, the same property lines and symbols look like those in the image below (notice that the distances of linework are unchanged):

How to do this?

Here is the knowledge base article on Carlson’s website that includes a ZIP file with the new symbol DWG files and instructions on where the files must be saved.

Carlson posted the 2015 versions of their for CAD (IntelliCAD or AutoCAD 2004-2015) on Tuesday afternoon… you can Download Carlson 2015 products with IntelliCAD here. The 2015 versions of embedded AutoCAD products (Survey and Takeoff OEM) will be released later this summer.

If your maintenance contract is current or you have purchased 2014 products within the past 90 days, you’re automatically eligible for an upgrade to 2015. Click here to look up your 2015 serial number using your 2014 serial number.

Click here to review the list of all improvements

Click here to read about updates in Carlson Survey 2015

Click here to read about updates in Carlson Civil and Carlson Hydrology 2015

Click here to read about updates in Carlson Takeoff Suite 2015 – including Construction, CADNet, Trench and GeoTech

There are price increases with 2015 products. Click one of these links if you would like to Request a Demonstration or Request a Custom Proposal to upgrade to 2015 or purchase new software.

Please follow this link to see if you’re eligible for our monthly webinars including CAD and Carlson Tips & Tricks, Intro to Survey and GIS and What’s New in Carlson 2015.

Carlson released the 2013 version of their desktop products today. This includes: Civil Suite, Civil, Survey, Hydrology, GIS, Takeoff, Construction, Point Cloud, Geology, Surface/Underground Mining and Natural Regrade.

The 2013 embedded-AutoCAD versions of Takeoff and Survey have not yet been released.

Unlike previous versions of Carlson that support running on top of IntelliCAD or AutoCAD products 2000-2012, Carlson 2013 can only be run on IntelliCAD or AutoCAD products 2004-2013. This includes AutoCAD, Map, Land Desktop and Civil 3d. Also, anyone using the FREE IntelliCAD that comes with Carlson is eligible for a FREE GIS Starter Kit from Esri which includes ArcMap.

You can download Carlson 2013 here.

If you are using 2012 and are current on your annual maintenance contract, you can click here to look up your new 2013 serial number online. You will need to enter your contact information and your 2012 serial number in order to generate the 2013 serial number. You can find your serial number by opening Carlson Software and going to Help > About Carlson Software > Change Registration.

If you have trouble finding your serial number or would like to know the cost to upgrade to 2013, please email me with your request.

Click here for the full list of improvements to Carlson 2013

Click here for improvements to the General commands in 2013

Click here for the additional data file & conversion support in Carlson 2013

Click here for improvements to Survey commands in 2013

Click here for improvements to Civil commands in 2013

Click here for improvements to Hydrology commands in 2013

Click here for improvements to GIS commands in 2013

Click here for improvements to Takeoff commands in 2013

Click here for improvements to Point Cloud commands in 2013

Click here for improvements to Geology commands in 2013

Click here for improvements to Surface/Underground Mining commands in 2013

Click here for improvements to Natural Regrade commands in 2013

Carlson released a new build of their desktop software earlier this week. This includes updates to the IntelliCAD/for AutoCAD versions of Survey, Civil, Hydrology, GIS, Basic Mining, Geology, Underground Mining, Surface Mining, Natural Regrade, Field, Takeoff, Construction and Point Clouds.

To confirm your current build number, go to Help > About Carlson. You’ll see the build number on the top line of the text box.

You can download the latest full version or updates to your current installation here.

If you would like to try out any of the Carlson Software products for 30-days, email me here.

For those anxious to try out the very latest and greatest updates in the testing versions of IntelliCAD 7.1, you can also send me an email to gain access to a new blog, “The Little CAD Engine That Could”, administered by Leonid Entov of Carlson Software.

Participation in the testing and access to the blog is by invitation only, so email me and I’ll pass along your request.

You can download the most recent updates to Carlson’s 2012 desktop software HERE

Looking for Carlson Software manuals? Prior to the 2010 release, Carlson included printed manuals with your purchase and, in addition, the manuals have always been available to print for yourself from the Help files.

With the 2010 release, Carlson “opened” a storefront on the self-publishing site called Lulu.com. You can order 2009 and 2010 Carlson Software manuals here http://stores.lulu.com/carlsonsw.