Carlson Survey IntelliCAD

Carlson Survey is designed to complement land surveying operations and provides a variety of survey features to process data from surface modeling to Least Squares Network Adjustment. Users work seamlessly between the office and the field by utilizing company-wide design styles for ease of use and efficiency.

The most robust Land Surveying software on the market and global leader...

• Import & Export to multiple native file formats, ie AutoCAD, LandDesktop, Civil 3D
• Complete COGO solution
• Choose your CAD platform 

Carlson Survey can be purchased as a standalone module or as part of the Civil Suite or Select Suite. This product can run standalone with the included license of IntelliCAD.

The price reflects a new, perpetual license. If you are a current Carlson user, please contact us for renewal or cross-grade options.

GENERAL FEATURES

• Built on IntelliCAD 11
• Project Setup – Flexible data storage methods
• Drawing Cleanup – Fix common drafting errors
• 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, 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

• Added ability to select and draw multiple centerline files
• Added support for GONS in Annotate Defaults and Label Angle
• Improved control over stationing centerlines including when importing from a CL file
• Added the ability to Edit a GNSS base point coordinates and adjust the associated side shots
• Added option to invert arcs when using sketch tree line
• Added access to the Symbol Library directly from the Draw Field to Finish dialog box
• Added option to use Point Names when converting Civil 3D Points to Carlson Points
• Added individual horizontal and vertical residual display and process control in Best-Fit Point
• Added new option in Field to Finish to Auto-Annotate Lines, Arcs, and Areas
• Added support for GONS in radial stakeout
• Added option to set a symbol rotation in Field to Finish
• Added option to use Mtext in Label latitude longitude coordinates
• Added more decimal options for Map Check
• Added option in Edit/Process Raw to draw side shots from single occupied point for draw traverse/sideshot lines
• Added Global Edit options for GIS/Note/Point Attribute Labels in Field to Finish
• Added option for reporting residuals between measured and stored points in Edit/Process Raw