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Greetings!
Several of the Carlson staff just returned from a very busy and exciting ConExpo-Con/AGG show in Las Vegas. We enjoyed meeting with those of you who were there and found the interest extremely high for machine control--Carlson Grade and Grade Supervisor, estimating and site prep--Carlson Takeoff, and also for the Carlson Surveyor+ GPS and
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our new Supervisor handheld PC for both survey and construction professionals.
Spring is here, even though the weather might not be cooperating just yet, and that means the designing and building season is under way. We have lots of new developments here at Carlson to speed and ease your work. Our webinars will continue throughout the year, Carlson College members have scheduled training sessions, IntelliCAD7 is about to be released, and we're planning a summer release of our 2012 office products.
We look forward to working with you and meeting your needs during this highly productive season.
Sincerely,
Bruce Carlson, President
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Use for Site Connectivity
Carlson Fleet Manager Office just released
Carlson Software's all-new Carlson Fleet Manager Office is designed to handle the two-way communications, data transfer, and remote monitoring of machines offering new performance for job site connectivity.
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With Fleet Manager Office, the data goes from the machines to the office and from the office to the machines. "This software benefits strongly from Carlson's extensive experience with the close managing needs of mining operations," says Randy Noland, V.P. of Positioning & Machine Control for Carlson. "Fleet Manager Office not only monitors your project site and equipment, it increases safety while saving users time and money and reducing energy use."
One of the top new aspects of this user-friendly, easy-to-learn package is its cut/fill color map, which allows users to see a complete overview of the cut/fill for an entire site at one time.
Read more about Fleet Manager Office, which is available through Carlson's extensive machine control dealer network. For more information about the product and other Carlson Positioning & Machine Control offerings, call 606-564-5028, email Carlson's machine control team or view the just-released machine control online solutions catalog. |
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Quick Carlson Updates & Info
2011 CARLSON MANUALS AVAILABLE
Many have asked about the availability of Carlson 2011 manuals. They  were recently posted for both download (this is a very large file so it's recommended to right click and save) and to order the printed version.
INTELLICAD 7 COMING SOON
The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) recently announced the release of the IntelliCAD 7.0 End User Beta, which is included in the currently available download of Carlson 2011 for existing users. Others can download a 30-day demo. We are interested in hearing about any problems encountered from those who download it. Please contact Leonid Entov with comments on IntelliCAD 7 or to report any problems you may encounter.
CARLSON 2012 INFO
Carlson programmers are busy preparing the Carlson 2012 release. Besides adding support for AutoCAD 2012 and IntelliCAD 7, there are new features for all the modules: Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil, Carlson Hydrology, Carlson GIS, Carlson Mining, Carlson Construction, Carlson Takeoff and Carlson Point Cloud. The release is expected in mid-summer 2011.
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YOU TUBE CHANNEL FOR MACHINE CONTROL TRAINING & INFO, PLUS ONLINE CATALOG
Carlson's Machine Control Division has just introduced a YouTube channel devoted to educational and training videos. Visit it to find answers to your questions or to see what's new. In addition, for those working in the construction, landfill or mining industries, Carlson Machine Control has just released a online solutions catalog featuring in-depth information about the features and benefits of both its software and hardware solutions.
CARLSON-GIS.COM
Learn more about the solution for building high accuracy Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Carlson SurvCE data collection software and Esri's ArcGIS suite of GIS software solutions at the newly posted website Carlson-GIS.com. The website takes the viewer step-by-step through the three phases of all projects -- the Planning Phase, the Construction Phase, and then the Maintenance Phase -- and how Carlson and Esri working together help you to collect, use and maintain the data through these three phases. |
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IMPROVE YOUR SOFTWARE SKILLS
Train with Carlson College Members
With the spring work schedule starting to heat up, this is a great time to spruce up your software skills. The mem bers of Carlson College offering training over the next couple of months include:
Harken-Reidar, That CAD Girl, CadNET Services and surveyorcentral.com. Their listings can be found in the Carlson College Calendar.
Harken-Reidar continues its full schedule of Carlson Software training with classes in Carlson Fundamentals, Advanced Civil Training and Carlson Hydro in Front Royal, Va. (April 26 through 29), and SurvCE Basic Training, Carlson Fundamentals and Advanced Survey in East Windsor, N.J. (April 28 through May 5). Call or email Harken-Reidar, 540-635-6742 or Info@harken-reidar.com to register or for details.
Current offerings from That CAD Girl include training in Columbus, Ohio (May 2-3), in Raleigh, N.C. (May 16-18 and June 1-2), in Atlanta, Ga. (May 23-25), and in Baltimore, Md. (June 14-16). Jennifer DiBona will be offering a wide variety of course subjects including an Intro to Quantity Takeoffs with Carlson, Drawing Preparation for Surface Modeling, an Overview of Carlson Survey, and a special presentation of SurvNET and Least Squares with Donnie Stallings. Learn more at www.thatcadgirl.com or email ContactUs@thatcadgirl.com.
For those in or close to the New England region CADNET Services provides training in Manchester, N.H., with upcoming offerings including an Intro to Carlson Civil, April 12, Carlson Civil Advanced, April 13, two days of Carlson Survey training, April 20-21, and Carlson Surfaces, April 22. For details, call Norm, 603-296-2376 x 201 or email norm@cadnetservices.com.
Richard Henline of surveyorcentral.com will be holding training classes in Charlestown, W.Va., for Carlson Survey Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced on subsequent days, April 25-27, and for Carlson SurvCE Beginning and Advanced on April 28-29. Call Richard at 877-507-3707 to sign up or for more class information, click on the bolded class name in this listing.
To find out more about Carlson Software training near you, contact the Carlson College members that serve your region. |
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Upcoming Webinar--April 7
Utilizing Carlson Civil for
3D Site Design
Learn how to use the power tools in Carlson Civilto do 3D site designs for parking lots, buildings, playgrounds, ponds and parks. This free, hour-long webinar will cover different ways to do fi ne grading with the Edit Contours command that allows you to edit contours, which in turn updates the surface.
Scott Griffin, Civil Sales Director for Carlson Software, will also illustrate how to use many other grading tools within Civil.
For those designing and building community and business projects, this webinar is not to be missed. See how Carlson's site network puts quick, intuitive design tools at your fingertips and how this can improve your design while it saves you time and effort. Sign up now! |
Carlson Software Snapshots
Carlson Point Cloud 2011
Carlson Software brings point cloud data to the world of CAD design and all can be viewed in 3D. Users can process up to 1 billion points with Carlson ease-of-use, quickly "clean the cloud:" to get to the "bare earth," and easily determine volumes to bring back into CAD.
Among the top new features in Carlson Point Cloud 2011 are the ability to:
Extract Bare Earth: Removes landscape, utilities and other non-surface features for a clean surface.
Drape Images: Select images from multiple formats to drape over meshes created from your point cloud.
Add annotation to your point cloud scene and export to PDF files to communicate with co-workers, supervisors & clients.
Carlson Point Cloud works with a wide variety of popular scanners and large point formats. To learn more, take the time to view this movie, download a demo or contact your local Carlson representative.
Carlson Civil 2011
The Edit Contours command in Carlson Civil now has the option to update the underlying triangulation surface.
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When this option is used, data points are added to the triangulation surface along the edited contour segment to make the triangulation surface match the contour line. To setup the contours for triangulation updates, use the Write Triangulation File option when creating the contours with the Triangulate & Contour command.
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CARLSON SOFTWARE-- IN THE NEWS
Mississippi DOT Chooses SurvCE
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) and Carlson Software signed a three-year contract to provide MDOT with Carlson's data collection software Carlson SurvCE. MDOT will be standardizing its field data collection and construction staking tasks on SurvCE beginning in May of this year.
Nicholas Bugosh Honored for Pioneering Work
A 2011 New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Award was recently presented to Nicholas Bugosh, who developed the Carlson Natural Regrade software solution, for his "pioneering contributions to geomorphic reclamation.
Initially developed in New Mexico, geomorphic reclamation is the process of construction watersheds on disturbed lands that simulate the relatively stable topography that the erosive forces of nature would everntually form over a very long time.
"The fact that Mr. Bugosh's work was initially developed on the coal mines in northweatern New Mexico, and is now being adopted throughout the United States and the world, is of particular note and pride to New Mexicans," said Charles Thomas, Acting Division Director of the New Mexico Mining and Minerals Division. |
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