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Not many CAD companies today can say they're 40 years old. Congratulations to ITC member, Carlson Software!

In 1983, a land surveyor and engineer named Bruce Carlson took his smarts, ingenuity, and can-do approach to begin creating land surveying software. Carlson Software was born and now delivers CAD software for the land surveying, civil engineering, GIS, construction, and mining industries. For more details about their history, see the Carlson news.

Carlson Software has been a member of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium since 2007. To find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together, see the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's .dwg technology, go here.

 

Carlson Software just released its Carlson 2023 product line. A brief roundup of new features and enhancements: Carlson Survey supports multiple centerline files and GNSS base point adjustments, Carlson Civil contains improved 3D design tools, Carlson Point Cloud includes improved color edge identification, and Carlson Hydrology delivers enhancements to HydroNET and GIS features. And there's much more!

To find out more about Carlson Software's latest tools and CAD software for the land surveying, civil engineering, GIS, construction, and mining industries:

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IntelliCAD is the default CAD engine that comes built-in to Carlson Software products. To find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together, see the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's .dwg technology, go here.

Headed to Carlson Software's Go West 2022 user conference? Check out IntelliCAD while you're there—many Carlson products are based on the IntelliCAD engine. Go West 2022 is April 4-6, 2022 in Denver, Colorado, US. The in-person conference includes training tracks for Carlson Survey, Civil, SurvCE|PC & Instruments, Mining, PhotoCapture & P3D, and Takeoff.

Carlson Software just released their Carlson 2022 product line with faster performance, increased file compatibility, and too many new features to list.

To find out more about Carlson Software's latest tools and CAD software for the land surveying, civil engineering, GIS, construction, and mining industries:

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IntelliCAD comes built-in to Carlson Software products. To find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together, see the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's .dwg technology, go here.

Carlson Software has announced that their in-person user conference will be back in 2022! Save the date for April 4-6, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. The Carlson user conference typically offers many educational sessions that cover a variety of industries, products, and workflows.

Carlson Software delivers a suite of products, several of which include IntelliCAD. To find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together, see the success story. To learn how IntelliCAD helps developers and their products use .dwg seamlessly, go here.

Seven western US states are hosting the upcoming Western Regional Virtual Survey Conference from March 27-30, 2021. Jennifer DiBona of That CAD Girl is speaking and demonstrating Carlson Software throughout the conference, and DiBona will be joined by ITC President, David Lorenzo, for a session on Monday.

Here are some presentations not to miss:

• Saturday March 27: Carlson Survey
• Sunday March 28: Carlson Software with IntelliCAD
• Monday March 29: Overview of IntelliCAD

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Look for That CAD Girl at the conference to see Carlson Software and how it works with IntelliCAD!

Carlson iCAD 2021 is available at a low-cost perpetual license for 2D and 3D CAD modeling. The software can open and save .dwg, .dgn, and .dxf files in 2017 and earlier formats. It can also import and export other format models including .pdf, .iges, and .step and can convert AutoCAD® Civil 3D® custom objects to standard CAD entities.

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iCAD 2021 is based on the IntelliCAD engine, and Carlson Software has been a member of the ITC since 2007. To find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together, see the success story.

Got GeoTIFF files? Carlson users are bringing drone images from Carlson PhotoCapture into Carlson Point Cloud for greater accuracy in land development projects. In a video from Carlson, you can watch GeoTIFF files be inserted into Carlson Point Cloud, which is based on the IntelliCAD engine, and then used with ground control points for surveying a driveway culvert site.

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Carlson Software delivers a wide range of CAD products across the land development and mining industries. Because they designed their CAD software to run with IntelliCAD or Autodesk® AutoCAD® from a single Carlson source code base, their users have a choice: work with built-in IntelliCAD for free or purchase a subscription to AutoCAD. To check out the ITC and Carlson success story, click here.

Carlson Software has released their Carlson 2021 product line update with IntelliCAD 10, bringing users in the land surveying, civil engineering, and mining industries new features, faster performance, and increased compatibility.

Highlights include photogrammetry in Carlson Survey, the ability to insert and manipulate BIM models in Carlson CADnet, and support of ODBC and ESRI File GeoDatabase databases in Carlson GIS. 

IntelliCAD comes built-in to Carlson Software products. To find out more about Carlson 2021:

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Carlson 2021 is available with IntelliCAD 10 which was released by the ITC earlier this summer. To find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together, see the success story.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, ITC member Carlson Software cancelled its Go West Conference that was originally scheduled for April 20-22, 2020. If you were registered to attend the Carlson Go West Conference, you can transfer your registration to next year's conference and receive a discount on Carlson support, or you can receive a free Carlson software module.

Next year's Carlson conference is already scheduled for May 4-6, 2021 in Maysville, Kentucky. Save the date!

To read the latest from Carlson Software President Bruce Carlson, go here. 

To get details about options for your 2020 Carlson conference registration, go here.