Let this post be a preliminary post of the Carlson User Conference, Day One, construction tract. Perhaps I’ll post a more detailed review later.
At the onset of today’s introduction it was revealed, as I posted earlier, that Carlson is moving to support the Intellicad platform while maintain support for the AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map products. Furthermore, Intellicad will ship with the Carlson packages and can be installed side by side with the traditional Carlson AutoCAD Add-on. The only minor catch is that the setup routine will have to be executed twice; however another license will not be required.
Secondly, it was stated that this conference was going to be about learning and not about marketing and sales but I’ve found most of the presenters boasting about their products. This is fine; they have some nice routines and deserve the right to be proud and really are not trying to sell them.
For Session I, I set in on the Surfaces class which stated “We will show varying types appropriate for creating surfaces…” Which I had hoped was more than Points, Lines, 2D Polylines at Elevation and 3D Polylines but I was disappointed. I wanted to ask what was in the header of their ‘.tin’ files but I let the urge pass, I’ll figure it out when I get the time.
The 3D Models Data Prep: Residential & Commercial classes mainly overlapped and mainly covered the text to elevation and polyline editing commands. I was hoping that a technique superior to generically triangulating this data would be presented, but was disappointed again.
Overall I’d rank day one as fair. Personally, the most informative thing today was the text to elevation and Polyline editing commands. Also the brief SiteNet demonstration by Bruce Carlson in today’s final session was very informative; to be the President of the company Bruce has a very detailed knowledge of how his product works.
Tomorrow I am looking forward to the RoadNet, SiteNet and Machine Control sessions.