Carlson Survey gives users upgrades to core features like the coordinate database, Field-to-Finish coding and cut sheets, as well as new commands, including one to twist points to a 3D view, among its many additional improvements. Get Carlson Survey two ways: Either Carlson Survey 2014, which works on AutoCAD® versions 2004 to 2014 and comes with IntelliCAD® 7.2 built-in, or the recently released Carlson Survey 2014 Embedded AutoCAD®, which comes with the 2013 AutoCAD OEM engine built in.
Here's a surveying software solution that is extremely versatile as well as a real time- and money-saver. As it always has, Carlson Survey works like a surveyor thinks. To learn more about Carlson, find a Carlson representative or dealer near you or request a fully functional 30-day product evaluation.
Carlson Survey is an easy-to-use, intuitive software that also provides upgrades such as added support for geodetic angles, distances and areas in its core survey commands and an enhanced 3D viewer window, which provides faster zoom, pan and rotate for larger models. The enhancement also enables view pivot around current view as opposed to just overall model center.
Carlson Survey delivers on customer feature requests with many useful improvements to existing commands along with many new commands. The user-interface has a fresh look with a score of new and updated icons, plus an optional ribbon toolbar.
Features
General
- Built on AutoCAD and IntelliCAD - Carlson Survey will run in AutoCAD® as well as AutoCAD® Map, Land Desktop and Civil3D and also on IntelliCAD.
- Project Setup - Flexible data storage methods
- Drawing Cleanup - Fix common drafting errors
- Drafting Enchancements - Handy tools for working in AutoCAD® such as Join Nearest, Shrinkwrap Entities, Polyline Utilities, Drawing Inspector, Layer Inspector and Twist Screen
- Data Compatibility - Supports industry standard LandXML and scores of specific data conversions
Surfaces
- Build Surfaces - By triangulation or rectangular grids
- Contouring - One step triangulate and contour from 3D entities as well as contouring from surface files
- Surface Manager - Change surface display properties and adjust surface functions to add and remove points and breaklines and swap edges
- Volumes - Earthwork volumes between triangulation or grid surfaces
- Pad Design - Tie cut/fill slopes from pad perimeter to surface, build pad surface, calculate and balance volumes, and edit pad parameters
Centerlines
- Design and Edit Centerlines - Design or input alignments on screen or in dialog with graphics
- Label Stations and Offsets - Annotate station and offsets along centerline and at selected points
- Calculate Offsets - Reports stations and offsets for selected points along centerline
- Create Offset Points - Create points at specified stations and offsets
- Spirals - Flexible handling of the most complex spiral curves including “spiral-only†elements going arc-spiral-arc, arc-spiral-line and line-spiral-line
Profiles
- Create Profiles - From surfaces, screen entities, points on centerline, etc.
- Quick Profile - One step profile creation with real-time update while adjusting centerline
- Input-Edit Profiles - Enter profile data in dual spreadsheet and graphic window, and design in reference to controlling profile grade points
- Draw Profiles - Draws profiles on grids or plan-profile sheets with auto-updating based on edits
- Profiles To 3D - Create points and 3D polylines from profiles
Points
- Import/Export - User-defined import and export of point data along with conversions with specific other formats
- Draw Points - Draw points with settings for symbols, layers and styles
- Point Groups - Point group manager to define sets of point by filters
- Coordinate File History - Tracks all changes to points with report and undo functions
- Fix Point Label Overlaps - Finds point label overlaps with rule options to fix automatically
- Point Tools - Utilities for modify point labels such as move with leader, twist and resize
Survey
- Data Collection Interfaces - Upload and download to popular data collectors
- Traverse Adjustment - Spreadsheet editor for raw data with graphics and processing for traverse adjustments
- SurvNET - Advanced network least-squares for total station, GPS and level data
- Field-to-Finish - Draw points with styles and in point groups set by point descriptions and draw linework by several flexible methods
- Field-to-Finish Inspector - Inspect all field-to-finish elements, see description source and re-draw based on descriptions edits
- COGO - Streamlined inverse, traverse, sideshot, intersections, interpolation, translate, rotate, scale and align
- Coordinate Transformations - Transform coordinates and screen entities between lat/lon and grid projections as well as local to local by Helmert and least-squares methods
- Deeds - Enter deed by description, read deed data from deed file, deed reports, deed correlation and generate legal description from drawing
- Cut Sheets - Create custom cut sheet reports with reference grades and station-offsets
Area/Layout
- Label Areas - Customized area label styles and several methods to select areas to label
- Size Areas - Sliding side area, hinged area, area radial from curve and bearing area cutoff
- Lot Manager - Lot definitions by point numbers with functions to create lots, conduct mapcheck for closure, edit in spreadsheet with graphics, report lots and draw lots
- Lot Layout - Size lots along alignment with controls for target area, setback and frontage
- Offsets, Intersection and Cul-de-Sacs - Layout for ROW and EOP linework
Annotation
- Angle & Distance Labels - Flexible routines to label linework in all possible layout combinations plus available rules to automatically fix label overlaps and revise labels when entities move
- Curve Labels - Label curve data in stack, along arc or in table
- Survey Text - Routines to create typical plat labels such as offset and building dimensions
- Label Elevations - Label spot elevations along an alignment
- Linetypes - Draw special linetypes
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