I am about to pull the trigger and purchase Carlson 2013 with Intellicad.
I have been using Microstation with Eagle Point for close to 15 years and know it with my eyes closed.
Gotta upgrade very soon with the son coming aboard, but so dang busy its hard to find time to learn something new.
I guess my question is... Any one go down this same road before me?
Any thoughts on ease of transition, etc. would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Randy
If you understood Microstation, you will have no problem with Carlson. It is much easier and intuitive. ONCE you get used to it.
I would HIGHLY recommend that you spring for $80 and go to cadapult.com and order a copy of the Carlson 2013 Survey third party book. It will help a ton on all Carlson programs. The basics it addresses in the first few chapters readily apply to all Carlson products.
In just a few weeks you should be very comfortable with Carlson and will probably be wondering why you didn't do this sooner. 😀
I don't know how far you are from Irving, Texas, but these are the people you really need to be dealing with:
http://www.geotx.com/index.php/contact.html
Guy there named Paul Carlson (no relation to the software guys) that can make you an outstanding deal on the software and training. Paul REALLY knows his stuff. His training classes are second to none.
My sons help me from time to time and said that they don't know how to use the software that I am using.
I told them that there is some new software on the other computer that I did not know how to use and they need to learn how to use that on their own, my mind if full already.
If I had not said that they would have kept waiting for me to do it for them.
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We're about to switch to Power Survey from Bentley. Same price as Carlson and you already know it!
Tom