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Best Practice in Mine Rehabilitation Course Featured Carlson Natural Regrade

The Universidad Complutense Madrid recently presented an International Complutense Course featuring world-renowned specialists in the design and modeling of fluvial geomorphic mine restorations. A total of 36 attendees came from nine countries representing five continents. The lecturers and trainers included Professor Greg Hancock from the University of Newcastle (Australia), an international authority on the use […] ...

IntelliCAD 9.0

The release of Carlson 2019 products also brings with it the latest version of IntelliCAD®. It is version 9.0, which offers some improvements that should especially help those who have moved or are considering moving from AutoCAD® into the IntelliCAD environment. The move to IntelliCAD offers tremendous cost savings, but for some, there have been […] ...

Carlson Survey OEM 2019 Released

MAYSVILLE, Kentucky, U.S.A. (November 2018) — The Carlson Survey 2019 OEM has just been released with the AutoCAD® 2018 OEM engine built-in. Carlson Survey users can read and write directly with the current AutoCAD DWG-drawing file format. Some of the new commands found in Carlson Survey OEM 2019 include: • Elevation Along Entity – A […] ...

Hybrid+ (What have they come up with now?)

……an advanced field solution for collecting data. When I first learned about this new module for SurvCE it was at the Go West user’s conference in San Diego last spring. I watched a demo of what was then a beta version of the software and being the practical application kind of person I am, was […] ...

October 2018 News

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Carlson Connect now available for AutoCAD 2019

MAYSVILLE, Kentucky, U.S.A. (October 2018) — Carlson Connect 2019 is now available on the Autodesk App Store, apps.autodesk.com, for $7.99. A collection of routines for transferring and converting data between Autodesk® Civil 3D®, and Carlson SurvCE and Carlson Survey, Carlson Connect 2019 runs within Civil 3D 2019 and uses the current Civil 3D data model. […] ...

Hybrid+ Surveying Case Study: Bringing Geodetic Coordinates Inside for Rodded Boretrak® Testing

Available new in SurvCE and SurvPC 6.0 is powerful Hybrid+ Surveying, which is a mixed use of GNSS and robotic total station measurements. One of the many attractive features of Hybrid+ Surveying is GNSS Resection by Total Station. In July 2018, we used this feature to bring true geodetic coordinates, with true north azimuth, into […] ...

Shephard Technical Services Adds Carlson LMD Mining Products

MAYSVILLE, Kentucky, U.S.A. (October 2018) – Shephard Technical Services of Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S., has added the extensive line of Carlson Laser Measurement Devices (LMD) to their products designed for the mining industry. Currently distributors of Carlson Machine Control products, Shephard Technical Services is led by Terry Shephard and Steve Davis. Terry brings more than 30 […] ...

Note from the President – September 2018

Carlson 2019 on IntelliCAD 9.0 Works Natively on Microstation ® DGN Drawings A real breakthrough for newly released Carlson 2019 is that it can load and work natively in Microstation “.dgn” drawings. You also have the ability to start new drawings in “.dgn” mode using the File > New command. By “native”, we mean that […] ...

Old School, New Tech

There has been a lot of buzz and excitement about surveying with drones, scanners, and mobile LIDAR units over more than a decade and companies worldwide are scrambling to get on top of it. Manufacturers are spending a lot of time and resources in producing both hardware and software for what appears to be one […] ...