Hey, Maryland Land Surveyors! That CAD Girl will see you in Ocean City

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! 🌊🏖️


Can’t wait to see our Kentucky Surveyors!

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!

 


It’s Conference-Season! We’re ready for Tulalip – See you there!

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


Now Posted! February and March Upcoming Training

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.


That CAD Girl is heading west!

We’re very excited – and appreciative! – to the Land Surveyors of Washington (LSAW) and to the Western Federation of Professional Surveyors for inviting us to present sessions at their 2024 conferences!

We will have some fun and exciting events at our booth that you won’t want to miss, so make sure to come by while you’re there!

In Tulalip at the 2024 LSAW Conference, That CAD Girl will be presenting Survey Project from Field to Plotted Sheet with Carlson Software – tentatively scheduled on Wednesday, Feb 28th.

 

At the Western Regional Survey Conference in Las Vegas, we will also have fun ‘n’ games at our booth and will be presenting Survey Project from Field to Plotted Sheet with Carlson Software.

And you won’t want to miss our other session! In Dueling Piano… err, Dueling CAD Stations: Civil 3D vs Carlson Software with John Dingwall of CAD Masters, we will go head-to-head to demonstrate how each program handles your day-to-day Survey work.

Early registration is still open for both Conference, so register today!


Have you registered for the NC Surveyors Conference & Trade Show yet?

You won’t want to miss this year’s NCSS Conference coming up February 8-10 at the Sheraton Imperial Conference Center in Durham! As always, there will be a full agenda of great educational sessions and a chance to catch up, visit and share all the best surveyors stories of the past year!

That CAD Girl will be there and we’d love to have you stop by our booth to say “Hi!” since it’s been awhile since we’ve been able to attend.

 

 


It’s been a fun (and busy!) few weeks…

Thanks to everyone who attended our workshops in Statesville & Hendersonville this month! We were pretty much busting the seams of our event space in Hendersonville and we’ll be better prepared for the crowd next year. I think it’s safe to say we’ll be back for a full day.

Here are a few snapshots of me and “the crew” who helped create this 3-ring circus.

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From left: Jeremy Taylor, aka “That CAD Guy”; Mark Long, Civil & Hydrology Training and Support for Carlson Software; me; Scott Griffin, National Civil Sales Director for Carlson Software; Butch Herter, Director of Hardware for Carlson Software and Mike Jones, Inside Sales Support for Carlson Software.

Pardon the smirks – a crude comment was made instead of just saying “Cheese!”

 

 

 

 

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Yeah, this is a little more honest.

I think we were at the end… of the day.

 

 

 

 

 

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Tuesday in Statesville

 

 

 

 

 

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Tiny bit of false advertising.

This is Jeremy, That CAD Guy, explaining the ins-and-outs of Traverse Adjustment in Carlson Survey.

 

 

 

 

Feel like you missed out? There’s still time to register for our encore presentations in Raleigh in mid-December. Click here to find out more


If You’re Not Using LandXML – You Should Be (yes, all of you!)

This is a badly needed webinar… I don’t think I’ve done one specifically on this topic before and, for the life of me, I don’t know why. For years I’ve been speaking to large groups at conferences and trade shows and it never ceases to amaze me how few people know the benefit of using LandXML files!

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This will be a little different from my regularly scheduled webinars because it’s FREE to everyone, there is no purchase required and the material presented will apply to everyone regardless of the civil/survey/construction software you use. Whether you know it or not, you’ve probably got everything you need already in your current software – you just need to put it to use.

So, what prompted me to finally schedule it? These poor people still using Land Desktop or Eagle Point calling me in a panic because their hard drives have finally crashed and they can’t get the old software installed on newer Windows machines. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t fault anyone for hanging on to something that works but the ones who call me never realized they had the tools to protect themselves and salvage years of project data all along.

You can register here (no strings attached – promise!) or keep reading for the full announcement…

Please join me in this free webinar while I explain the benefits of, and how to use, LandXML-formatted files to share and archive project-related data files regardless of the manufacturer or version of software you and other team members use.

Although many people do not realize it, LandXML is a tool that’s most likely in your hands now and won’t require any additional purchase.

This webinar is a MUST SEE for anyone still using Land Desktop, Eagle Point or other program that has been retired because it is increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to install these programs on newer computers.

The information provided in this webinar will apply equally to users of Carlson Software, Land Desktop, Civil 3d, TerraModel, Eagle Point and practically any other software for surveyors, engineers or contractors (including machine control systems).
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This webinar will last approximately 1 hour and there will be time for questions at the end.

Click here to register for the webinar now