When:
March 14th-15th, 8:30am-4:30am
Where: Carlson Software’s Watertown, MA Office
March 14th: Takeoff Basics
Importing and working with DWGs, PDFs, and paper plans
Cut/Fill, Subgrade, Strata, and Topsoil volumes
Quality Control tools and Reports
Creating field data for Stakeout and Machine Control
March 15th: Roads and Trenching
Cross-Section estimating from paper or PDFs
Model making from Hz. Alignments, Vert. Profiles, and Templates
Trench Cut, Backfill, and Pipe quantities
Carlson
Takeoff R5, which comes with the AutoCAD® engine built-in,
gives users increased 3D visualization, a whole new set of commands
for... click here
Take-off Professionals, a member of Carlson College and guest
instructor at our Annual User
Conference, is hosting the following training:
* January 26 to 28 - Phoenix, AZ
Carlson Takeoff with AutoCAD for Site
Prep
* February 16 to 18 - Phoenix, AZ
Carlson Takeoff, Civil with AutoCAD for
Site Prep
This
webinar will be presenting highlights of some of the new features of
Carlson Takeoff 2011, which is soon to be released. Among the many
things... click
here
There is
an error exporting .TN3 files in the Jul-13-2010 version of Takeoff
2010. To fix the issue, download the patch from the Knowledge Base
article found Here.
Marco
Cecala of Machine Control Online highlights some of the
differences between performing Takeoffs and Data Prep for surfaces,
subgrades, and linework in his article Its All
About the Data: Do you need both Takeoff and Data Prep Training?
"The two disciplines are related, but in practice are very different."
-Marco
Takeoff Tip: Missing Layer Targets
Tue
May 04, 2010 1:30 pm EDT
“Error:
no materials defined. Run Define Layer Target/Material/Subgrade” is a
common error that occurs when the Takeoff directory is pointing to the
incorrect folder. Go to the pull down Settings > Configure >
Project/Data Folders and set the Data Folder Setup to Drawing Folder.
Now if you run Define Layer Target/Material/Subgrade the program will
find the .trg file in the correct folder.
Mailbag: Digitizing a TIFF File
Mon
Apr 05, 2010 9:15 am EDT
Customer:
I've imported an image file [Draw>Image>Raster Image], scaled it
[Edit>Scale>2D Scale], but keep getting a 'your current pointing
device cannot be used as a tablet' error when I try to calibrate [Under
Digitize>Tablet>Calibrate]. What do I need to do?
Go
to Digitizer>Digitizer Settings and check ON "Use Mouse" and check
OFF "Auto Tablet On for Digitize Commands". Click Ok and you should be
able to run any of the digitizer commands with your mouse. Note: There
is no need to calibrate for "on-screen" digitizing an image.
Best,
Todd
PDF Import Movies
Fri
Mar 26, 2010 3:20 pm EDT
Here
are 5 movies going through importing PDFs and creating workable
linework from them:
In order for Import PDF
to work in Carlson Takeoff or Carlson Construction you need to download
and install Ghostscript from the website
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/. More...
In addition to
accurately
calculating cut/fill material volumes, J. Read Corporation in Hingham,
Mass., used Carlson Takeoff to help potential customers visualize the
future -- the future plans, that is, that would change an abandoned
stone quarry into a a world-class residential and golfing community. More...
