Greetings!
This is just a short newsletter to keep you up-to-date with some of the news at Carlson. In spite of heat waves, oil spills, summer vacation time and all the rest that's going on in the world, we here at Carlson are still working away to improve our products or to develop new ones to meet your needs. Bruce Carlson, president and founder of Carlson Software.
 | Carlson Software has many partners in business, but the independent, privately owned, customer-centric company you've come to know and appreciate is here to stay. We offer the complete
suite of solutions, across the disciplines of data collection,
surveying, engineering design and drafting, mine planning and modeling,
construction estimation and machine control and our software solutions are not being phased out or taken over by other entities, just being constantly improved and enhanced for our customers' benefit. Please take the time to check out our upcoming webinars, information about the formation of Carlson EMEA, the training offerings from Carlson College members, news about IntelliCAD7 and more. We also look forward to seeing you in Louisville November 7 to 10 at the Carlson "Partnering You With the World" User Conference. Best regards, Bruce Carlson, President
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Updates Improve Speed and Function
IntelliCAD7 in the Pipeline
As Carlson Software works on the many improvements and
upgrades for their Carlson 2011 office software release, they are also joining
with ITC members around the world to ready the IntelliCAD7® release.
The ITC, IntelliCAD Technology Consortium, is a nonprofit organization of CAD
software developers who develop applications for IntelliCAD, a computer-aided
design engine. Carlson Software includes IntelliCAD for free in its office
software solutions, which are also produced to run on AutoCAD®. Carlson
users can choose which CAD engine to run their software on - be it for
surveying, civil engineering, takeoff/estimating, mining and more.
"This is a revolutionary rather than evolutionary update to
the IntelliCAD engine," says Leonid Entov, assistant director of Software
Development for Carlson. "The entire engine has been revamped to operate
directly on underlying data structures, which means less data conversion,
resulting in faster opening and saving."
In addition, Entov notes that faster drawing methods have
been utilized, which will result in a significant performance increase on large
data sets for dynamic operations. Most notable editing updates to modernize
functionality include: - Object cycling for selection
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More powerful grip editing
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Non-rectangular viewports
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Improved Explorer window
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Properties dockable pane
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Greatly improved plotting dialog
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Additional printing features
For those working with other CAD software, IntelliCAD7 will
have improved display capabilities. For example: Civil 3D objects (up to Civil
3D 2009) will be able to be displayed and listed. IntelliCAD will support .dgn
and .pdf overlays and .dwg 2010 files will be able to be used directly without
conversion.
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To Serve
Europe, Middle East and Africa
Markets
Carlson
EMEA bv Opens in the Netherlands
A wholly owned subsidiary of Carlson Software, Carlson EMEA bv, was established last month in the Netherlands to
support and expand Carlson business in
Europe, Middle East and Africa.
 Four industry experts have joined Jan
Bech, who is in the United Kingdom, and Jesus Latova, who works from Spain, to make up the Carlson
EMEA team. Bech has been handling Carlson's European and Canadian sales for
the past four years and is a specialist in Carlson desktop solutions and Latova
is the director of Data Collection Product Design for Carlson.
New EMEA team
members include Rob van Etten and Floris van den Hoeven, who both bring a high
level of technical support expertise and years of field experience. Van Etten
has a long track record as a GNSS hardware/software expert and van den Hoeven is
a specialist in optical survey solutions and software. Aart Bakker has extensive
experience with product development and international sales. He will work closely with Marcel
Goyvaerts, a senior in the survey industry for international marketing and sales management. They complete the
EMEA team.
"We see a
steadily growing market of Carlson software users in Europe and the Middle East," says Goyvaerts, who will be leading the operation.
"The interest in Carlson for its data collection, CAD-design software, and machine
control solutions has grown substantially over the past 10 years. It makes
sense to establish an office in Europe with
experts speaking the local language and knowing local market requirements.
Plus, customers will benefit with the eliminated time zone," adds Goyvaerts.
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Carlson Surveyor+ GPS is Shipping & More
It's here! And the interest in Carlson's
Surveyor+ GPS System is growing. This affordable, accurate, rugged, reliable and scalable system is the lowest priced, most flexible solution of its kind for accurate, RTK data collection from
either cellular-based reference stations or base-to-rover systems.  With the Surveyor+ GPS System, you get
Carlson's Surveyor+ data collector, full keyboard, GSM modem, GNSS board,
pole and antenna.
The"form factor" is compact (no bulky receiver on the pole), and the
unit can be used with total stations as well. Plus, the
Surveyor+ GPS System comes with the highly popular Carlson
SurvCE software with extensive GPS and total station drivers. If you've
waited to make your first purchaseof GPS, or you need to add systems,
consider the Surveyor+ GPS System, a true value about to be available -- and it comes with Carlson's free technical support. Call or email your regional Carlson representative to find out more.
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Carlson is offering a special price, which is staying the same, not going up in
increments, for Eagle Point users to upgrade to Carlson Civil Suite - Carlson
Survey, Carlson Civil, Carlson Hydrology, and Carlson GIS.
And for those non-Eagle Point users, Carlson is still currently running the $2500 Carlson Civil Suite "Recovery" Special. That represents
50% off the price if each of the ingredients - Carlson Civil, Carlson Survey,
Carlson Hydrolgy, Carlson GIS - were bought separately.
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Training Options Expanded
Carlson College
Consider getting training to enable you or your employees to use your Carlson Software to its full potential. Increasing skills in this way always offers benefits to businesses, whether you are an individual on his or her own or a large firm.
Both Carlson Software and Carlson College members, including those who exclusively conduct  Carlson SurvCE classes, will schedule training to meet your needs if requested. Check to see those members close to you.
CADNET Services LLP, New Hampshire, has scheduled a series of Carlson Software classes from now through October. These classes, which include Intro to Survey (July 13), Intro and Advanced Civil (July 20 & 21) and a two-day comprehensive Survey class (July 27 & 28) are all listed on the Carlson College Calendar. These classes will all be held in Manchester, N.H. CadNET contact: Rick Ladd.
Harken-Reidar Inc., located in Front Royal, Virginia, is led by Harry Ward, PE, who was recently named one of the 15 most prominent people in civil engineering by CE News and also received George Mason University's "Outstanding Adjunct Professor" award this year. Harken-Reidar, an extremely active Carlson College member, presents extensive Carlson Software classes and has just recently introduced affordable training webinars into their repertoire. Scheduled for the days of July 14-16 is a one-hour "Site Security Design" webinar. Call them at 540-635-6742 or email them to find out more and be sure to check their Carlson Software class offerings for one that will work for you.
That CAD Girl in Clayton, North Carolina, is another active Carlson College member. In addition to conducting a series of free webinars for Carlson Software, Jennifer DiBona of That CAD Girl has also scheduled classes throughout the summer to help Carlson users increase their skills. Coming up this month is CAD Review with Intro to Carlson in Raleigh, North Carolina, July 11-12, and Surface Modeling with Carlson, also to be held in Raleigh, July 26-27.
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Thank you for your continued interest in Carlson Software. We sincerely appreciate your suggestions and feedback that helps us improve our software solutions. Our top-ranked technical support team is here for you.
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Carlson Upcoming Webinars
Jennifer DiBona of That CAD Girl is continuing her series of informative, free webinars. On Thursday, July 22, at 12 p.m., EST-US, Jennifer DiBona will present: Working with Points in Carlson Software.This hour-long webinar will cover most aspects
of Point creation and management with Carlson Software. Features that this class will cover include default
settings, translating & rotating, non-surface points and point
groups. Whether
you are new to Carlson or have been working with it for years, this
webinar should supply some handy tools to make your job easier. SIGN UP NOW. ***
On Thursday, August 5, at 12 p.m., EST-US, the featured webinar will be Drawing Scales & Annotation in Carlson Software. This hour-long webinar will cover the use of horizontal scale
settings, text sizing, linetype and dimension scaling & sizing in
Carlson Software with IntelliCAD. Whether working in plain IntelliCAD, AutoCAD or with Carlson, dealing
with drawing scales and annotation sizing seems
to always be a major frustration for drafters and designers. This session will explain how Carlson's use of a
few key settings makes this task much easier. SIGN UP NOW. Webinars are scheduled to last one hour with a Q&A
session during or following. For more information about Carlson software products and how they can work for you, view Carlson's many archived webinars to find just what you're looking for. |
Here's
Carlson's collection of
DOT code tablesFor those working with their state Departments of
Transportation, Carlson has code tables for 21 DOTs for Carlson Survey and
Carlson SurvCE. These include the following states: California,
Colorado, Florida,
Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Maryland,
Minnesota, Missouri,
Mississippi, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. For Carlson Survey, these code tables are installed under
Carlson Projects\Settings. For SurvCE, they're posted on the Carlson website
under Knowledge Base topic 388 (search for 388 or DOT).
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Sign up NOW for the 3rd Carlson User Conference
Registration is now live for the Carlson "Partnering You With the World" User Conference, to be held November 7 through 10. Featured speakers will include representatives of international equipment manufacturers, "green" design proponents, and more. The 3rd annual Carlson Software User Conference will be held at the historic Brown Hotel in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, beginning Sunday night, Nov. 7, with a reception, and featuring extensive classes including expanded offerings in model building, BIM, Point Cloud technology, machine control and more. Subjects addressed will cover the range of Carlson products -- technically advanced software for land surveying, civil engineering, construction, mining & more. The class schedule and meeting agenda is now posted on the conference web pages.
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Visit Carlson at the ESRI Survey & Engineering GIS Summit, July 10-13Stop by the
Carlson booth S204 at the ESRI Survey and Engineering GIS Summit, July 10-13, in San Diego. Carlson is a Platinum Sponsor of the event and will be illustrating Carlson's methods of working with ESRI with its CAD software at a luncheon on Saturday. Also, remember that ESRI is teaming with Carlson to offer
Carlson-IntelliCAD users in the United States a GIS Starter Kit, which includes: ArcGIS® ArcView®
desktop software A copy of the book A
to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems A copy of GIS
Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView9, Third Edition
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