Carlson Survey Product Review

Application software for land surveying that manages the complete job cycle from field data collection to drafting a final plan.

Carlson Survey can be purchased as a standalone module or as part of the Civil Suite which also includes Civil, Hydrology and GIS. It can run standalone with the included license of IntelliCAD or on top of a separately purchased license of full AutoCAD. All Carlson Software purchases will be delivered by email with your new serial number and download instructions within two business days.

Carlson Survey includes features that are comparable to the survey and GIS components of programs such as: DCA/Softdesk/Land Desktop, AutoCAD Map, Civil 3d, Eagle Point, TerraModel, GeoPak and InRoads.

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 break lines 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 center line and at selected points
• Calculate Offsets – Reports stations and offsets for selected points along center line
• 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 center line, etc.
• Quick Profile – One step profile creation with real-time update while adjusting center line
• 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