Carlson Precision 3D Topo / Hydro

Carlson Precision 3D Topo / Hydro Product Review

POWERFUL SURFACE TOOLS

Surface Creation:
● Create surfaces from point cloud data.
○ No reduction for highest resolution
○ Grid Reduction for faster loading of large surfaces
○ Simplification
● Create surfaces from imported points and polylines.
● Add points and breakline polylines to existing surfaces.
● Crop and merge surfaces

Surface Editing:
● Real-time surface editing with dynamic contours
● Unified calculate volumes command and includes new surface to surface volumes.
● Surfaces created or used as top surface display cut/fill volumes in properties window.
● Add/remove points
● Add breaklines
● Swap triangle edges
● Remove triangles
● Edit point elevation

● Set point elevation from slope
● Surface smoothing
● Improve ridges and valleys
● Remove dimples (small shallow spots)
● Create PAD template surfaces for cut and fill
● Simple texturing using polylines
● Crop surfaces to polyline● Merge Surfaces

PRECISION 3D HYDRO

Remarkably Easy-To-Use 3D Engineering Design Software 

● Full storm sewer design capability
● Speed design with revolutionary drag and drop options for selecting headwalls and endwalls
● Delineate drainage and ponding areas
● Calculate runoff from surface models
● Size culverts and place at low points
● Fit headwalls from Headwall Library using solid modeling
● Grade surfaces for both upstream and downstream designs
● Move culverts and headwalls to new locations with full dtm restoration
● Choose from multiple barrel options
● Integrate easily into Carlson Civil Suite, AutoCAD, and Microstation

POWERFUL POINT CLOUD TOOLS

Control ‘the Cloud’ like Never Before

● Remove trees, vegetation, cars, building using bare ground filter.
● Apply bareground filter and all other filters within polygon boundaries.
● Point Cloud point selector tool for delete and crop, with the ability to create a new cloud from the selection.
● Copy pointcloud regions inside polygons.
● Save pointcloud to LAS/LAZ version 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 including coordinate projection WKT.
● Uses multiple CPU cores for faster performance.
● Merge multiple pointclouds together.
● Crop pointclouds.
● Delete pointcloud points.
● Crop/delete points using polygons.
● Reduce points using smart voxel grid, outlier and shadow points filters.